is partially eclipsed – passes not quite entirely into Earth’s shadow. Here’s how it appears in our Zodiac Wavy Chart for 2021.
And a fuller view:
The middle of this event is 10 Universal Time, so a sight for North America and the Pacific. I’m sorry that I delayed getting this ready – have been working against odds to get finished for you the Zodiac Wavy Chart for 2022 and, on an grander scale, the full Astronomical Calendar 2022. Watch this space.
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Thanks Guy. I watched the eclipse through clouds last night from the back yard here in San Francisco. Once in a while Aldebaran and Betelgeuse shone through the clouds, but mostly it was just the Moon and the clouds. There was a nice clear hole through the clouds around the Moon and the surrounding starscape for about 20 minutes shortly before maximum eclipse. The clouds were moving fast mostly from southwest to northeast, the Moon was moving from west to east (and a little bit toward the north) as she orbited through the southern edge of the Earth’s shadow, *and* the Moon was moving east to west across the sky as the Earth turned. A complicated dance. With the clouds everything changed from moment to moment, I just relaxed and enjoyed the show.
Those of us in the eastern U.S. had to get up around 3 a.m. to join the eclipse as it was progressing and see the maximum point at 4:03. I was able to record a few shots through a telephoto lens to create this mosaic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/starvergnuegen/51691474353/in/dateposted-public/
I hope as many of you as possible were able to get a good view.
Gorgeous photos, how could they be better!
Beautiful sight in Mid-Atlantic USA. Cold winds, so opened up all blinds on west side of house and stayed inside, warm and comfortable, instead of opening observatory. A very grand eclipse.
Here in Anchorage it was lovely. High in a clear sky, with maximum eclipse just after midnight. But chilly: -8° F (-22° C)!
I would only have had about 20 minutes of it from northern England so I stayed in bed and as it turned out it was cloudy anyhow when I got up at 0945 but I don’t know what it was like at 0718 when the eclipse began.I didn’t think it’d be worth it for such a short clipping of the Moon before it set but I have just been looking at some photos on Space Weather from Aberdeen, Scotland and he seems to have caught it pretty well with about 15 percent coverage and it looks like it’s above hills too.Although Aberdeen is west of here and some considerable distance north so perhaps they had it for longer up there?
Clear skies in Missouri, my part at least, allowed a beautiful observation of the nearly total (97%) eclipse with the moon at or near apogee.
Sadly here in Sydney the view is being obscured by clouds. Even if it clears soon, the moon has already moved out of the umbra.