Photos and Video of the December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse

Well folks, last night I reported that a lunar eclipse was going to occur a few hours ahead of time. Hopefully everyone in the North American area was able step outside and observe it for a while. I sat out there for hours and it was magnificent.

I took some photos of the event, though my camera is not really set up for this kind of work, so they aren’t great. But here is a little overview of what I saw. The individual pictures are later in this post.

Stages of the Lunar Eclipse

Stages of the Lunar Eclipse


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Get Ready for a Total Lunar Eclipse TONIGHT – December 21, 2010!

In about 3 hours, the last lunar eclipse of the decade is going to occur, and it’s going to be a good one!

According to the Griffith Observatory:

It is also the highest in the sky that a totally eclipsed Moon has appeared from Los Angeles in 1,591 years and it will not be this high again for at least another millennium.

NASA chimes in:

The entire event is visible from North America and western South America. Observers along South America’s east coast miss the late stages of the eclipse because they occur after moonset. Likewise much of Europe and Africa experience moonset while the eclipse is in progress. Only northern Scandinavians can catch the entire event from Europe. For observers in eastern Asia the Moon rises in eclipse. None of the eclipse is visible from south and east Africa, the Middle East or South Asia.

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Proof That Man Landed on the Moon

MoonIt’s kind of sad to me that there are people out there that actually don’t believe that we went to the moon… but I guess it takes all kinds.

For those people, here is a video which claims to refute any of the edicts they cling to and indeed offers proof to the contrary. Still, people are going to believe what they want to believe…
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NASA to Slam Rocket into the Moon (on Purpose)!

Saturn RocketSpace.com recently reported on a plan by NASA to impact the moon in an area believed to have a potential store of surface ice.

The impact will create a huge cloud of material that can be remotely analyzed for water content. This data will enable planners to work through the complexities of building a permanent human settlement on the moon.
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Google Moon & Google Mars

Google MoonGoogle has added some fascinating footage of the moon to commemorate the anniversary of our Apollo moon landings.

This is interesting from a historical perspective, but even more fascinating is the incredible detail of the moon surface that can be seen when you zoom all the way in. I guess this definitively answers all questions regarding what the moon surface is made of.
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