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  • 11 Apr 2014

    The Cambridge Astronomy Saga: Eclipse

    If you’re hanging out in the Western Hemisphere around 1am early Tuesday, April 15th, look up! There will be a total lunar eclipse next week, which means that the Earth will pass between the Sun and the Moon in such a way that the Earth’s shadow gradually covers the Moon. But that doesn’t mean total […]

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  • 20 Dec 2010
    David H. Levy

    First Lunar Eclipse in 2.5 years! Part II

    As yesterday afternoon wore on, the Tucson area was enveloped in a strange cloud pattern called the Pineapple express—a very long, thin band of clouds stretching all the way from Hawaii.  Over Los Angeles the rain had been pouring for days, and we heard late in the afternoon from our dear friends Bobbi and Larry […]

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  • 20 Dec 2010
    David H. Levy

    First Lunar Eclipse in 2.5 years!

    If the sky is clear early Tuesday morning December 21st beginning just before midnight (and the forecast expects it to be at least partially so) there will be a beautiful total eclipse of the Moon, the first in 2 ½ years. It will be my 79th eclipse, which includes all total solar and lunar eclipses, even the shallow penumbral lunar eclipses. It will be an event that brings me back to the great lunar eclipse of December 30, 1963 (my 4th eclipse) which is something I will never forget.

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