Blood red moon hung in the sky black in the darkest night of this year. This week's lunar eclipse is the only one this year and became the last in 372 years coincides with winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Eclipse ofthe moon also marked the longest and darkest night of the year. Observers found the scenery beautiful sky of the moon in late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, provided there are no clouds are blocking. "The shores of the blue in the shadow of the Earth used as settings for red moon is incredible beautiful," said astronomy professor from Colorado Mountain College, Jimmy Westlake, before the beginning of total eclipse, when the moon completely covered the earth's shadow. Jimmy was the middle of watching the eclipse from Dublin.
Jimmy managed to splatter pictures moon with a star constellation in tow. "total eclipse the moon was in the position of the foot of the constellation Gemini Twins and near the star cluster M35,"he told Space.com
Total lunar eclipse occurs when Earth precise line between full moon and the sun, so the moon blocking the sunlight to bounce off the surface of the moon.
The color of a lunar eclipse will vary, depending on weather conditions, amount and type of small particles in the north and optical instrument used for observation. The range of colors will be more obvious when observed with the naked eye rather than using a telescope.
French astronomer, Andre-Louis Danjon introduce the five-scale brightness or luminosity (L) to classify the color of an eclipse. Scale that starts with L = 0, which means dark lunar eclipse where the moon almost invisible, and L = 4 when the moon looks very bright copper red or orange.
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