Credit & Copyright: Ryan Han
Explanation:
On
November 8 the Full Moon
turned blood red as it slid through Earth's
shadow in a beautiful total lunar eclipse.
During totality
it also passed in front of, or
occulted,
outer planet Uranus
for eclipse viewers located in parts of northern America and Asia.
For a close-up and wider view
these two images were taken just before the occultation began,
captured with different telescopes and cameras
from the same roof top in Shanghai, China.
Normally very faint compared to a Full Moon, the tiny,
pale, greenish disk of the
distant
ice giant
is just to the left of the Moon's edge and about
to disappear behind the darkened, red lunar limb.
Though only visible from certain locations across planet Earth,
lunar occultations of planets are
fairly common.
But for this rare "lunar eclipse occultation" to take place,
at the time of the total eclipse the outer planet had to be both at
opposition and very near the ecliptic plane to
fall
in line with Sun, Earth, and Moon.
Lunar Eclipse of November 2022:
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