Did you catch the night of December 10's total lunar eclipse?
The best seats in the house for the total lunar eclipse spectacular was here in Asia.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned just right in its orbit to pass through Earth's shadow. Today, that occurred when Asia and the Pacific were facing right at the moon. Other regions of the world, including some areas of Europe and the western U.S. and Canada, could catch at least part of the show before sunrise or after sunset.
I watched the onset of the eclipse's total phase from our rooftop, but the clouds at my location closed in partway through the 51-minute window of totality. Did you see the moon's red glow?
So if it's a total eclipse, why didn't the moon go totally dark?
