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Tonight, 28th August 2007, there was a full lunar eclipse. This is when the moon paths directly into the Earth's shadow. The suns light, refracts around the atmosphere of the earth (filters out the blue, but allows the red past) casting a red glow on the moon, making it look 'blood red'

Enjoy the time lapse!

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  • JESSI JUNKIE THE OMNISCIENT GURU 2 years ago
    ewwwwwwwwwww iain i hate you!
    jokes jokes!!! thanks for the videooo!!
    love the music too!
    i can't believe i can't see it here at all :( stupid clouds!
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  • 3d60 2 years ago
    are we effectivly seeing the heat signature of the earth as in infra red radiation....?
  • Buck Flashroy 2 years ago
    Not quite. It's more like shining a light through a prism to get a rainbow - except with this it's the sunlight shining through the earth's atmosphere, and when the moon is in total eclipse only the red light is bent round enough to land on the moon - the blue light (along with most of the other colours) doesn't bend round quite enough to land on the moon, so disappears into space.

    more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
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  • dunno 2 years ago
    Awesome! I wanted to see it in person but it happened at like 5 am and I had to get up at 8.

    Killer.
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  • Buck Flashroy 2 years ago
    Cool, good work capturing it. I didn't know there was a lunar eclipse - although actually was it just in the southern hemisphere? Nice pictures though. The music reminded me a bit of 'A clockwork orange'!
  • Scruff_E_Guy plus 2 years ago
    It was supposed to be visible from my area in the Northern hemisphere too...Minnesota, USA, but we had a very heavy thunderstorm and nothing was visible except rain and lightning
  • Ben Millett 2 years ago
    I didn't know about it either.
  • SteveR plus 2 years ago
    No-one told me about this, either.
  • Buck Flashroy 2 years ago
    I've just checked, and apparently it happened between 8:50-12:24am GMT. This obviously means that we wouldn't be able to see it.
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  • jendreams 2 years ago
    I woke up at 2:45 last night and took pictures of it! Very nice.
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  • schroberts 2 years ago
    Very nice. It happened here around 5 am, and I only got to see it about an hour later when it was really faded.
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  • Francis 2 years ago
    Ahh.. that song! Invention In F. I screwed that song up during a recital when I was younger. *squishes face*

    But awesome time lapse! Thanks for the vid!
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  • eric cwiertny 2 years ago
    very cool timelapse!
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  • aaroneous 2 years ago
    Nice LCF! I wished I could've filmed some of it this morning. At least I caught the last few minutes of it as I drove to work. Cool vid!
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  • Capucha plus 2 years ago
    beautiful !
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  • islebehere plus 2 years ago
    thanks for this. i overslept
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  • SectionJake 2 years ago
    cool video. i tried to capture it here but had to many clouds.
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