Lunar eclipse 2021 pictures: Stunning photos show beaver ‘blood’ moon’s partial eclipse
The world has been treated to the longest partial lunar eclipse in years, with the Moon turning red.
The spectacle has been captured in a host of pictures that show the glowing crimson orb against the dark sky.
A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon, blocking the light from getting to the lunar surface. That means that there appears to be a bite taken out of the Moon, with some of its surface going dark.
What light does get to the Moon has moved through the Earth’s atmosphere. As that light travels past us, it scatters, turning it red so that the Moon appears lit up in a spectacular bloody colour.
Photographers from across the world were able to capture that moment as it happened early on Friday morning UK time.
Here are some of the best of those pictures.
Although the sky was a little hazy on November 19, we were still able to observe and photograph the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years. Here are a few photos of the Blood Moon taken from south Calgary. @CBCEyeopener @SkyNewsMagazine #2021LunarEclipse pic.twitter.com/V6OlwlmfIq
— Astrogeo (@astrogeo) November 19, 2021
Here's one more before I go to sleep. 97% in shadow. #LunarEclipse pic.twitter.com/OTBttXAhjJ
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) November 19, 2021
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