Watch Now: Live Total Lunar Eclipse Webcast Online Video I watched the onset of the eclipse's total phase from our deck, east of Seattle, but the clouds closed in partway through the 51-minute window of totality. Did you see the moon's red glow? Leave a comment below, and if you captured a great picture, point us to it and we just might add it to the roundup.
So if it's a total eclipse, why didn't the moon go totally dark? The lunar surface takes on that dusky appearance during a total eclipse because some sunlight is refracted around Earth by our planet's atmosphere. It's as if the glow of a thousand sunsets is directed toward the moon. This report explains the physics that's involved watch Now: Live Total Lunar Eclipse Webcast Online Video.
So if it's a total eclipse, why didn't the moon go totally dark? The lunar surface takes on that dusky appearance during a total eclipse because some sunlight is refracted around Earth by our planet's atmosphere. It's as if the glow of a thousand sunsets is directed toward the moon. This report explains the physics that's involved watch Now: Live Total Lunar Eclipse Webcast Online Video.
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