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                                 2021 May 28
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                       Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney
    Image Credit & [3]Copyright: Peter Ward ([4]Barden Ridge Observatory)

   Explanation: [5]The reddened shadow of planet Earth plays across the
   lunar disk in this telescopic image taken on May 26 near Sydney, New
   South Wales, Australia. On that crisp, clear autumn night a Perigee
   Full Moon slid through the northern edge of the shadow's dark central
   umbra. Short [6]for a lunar eclipse, its total phase [7]lasted only
   about 14 minutes. The Earth's shadow was not completely dark though.
   Instead it was suffused with a faint red light from all the planet's
   sunsets and sunrises seen from the [8]perspective of an eclipsed Moon,
   the [9]reddened sunlight scattered by Earth's atmosphere. The HDR
   composite of 6 exposures also shows the wide range of brightness
   variations within [10]Earth's umbral shadow against a faint background
   of stars.

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