Another Moon
Stunning lunar eclipse
A blood-red moon hung in the black sky on the darkest night of the year last night (Dec. 20). The total lunar eclipse was the only one this year and the only one in the last 372 years to coincide with the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, which is the longest and darkest night of the year. Skywatchers around the country got some gorgeous views of the moon, as long as it wasn't obscured by clouds. "The blue edge to Earth's shadow set against the reddened moon was indescribably beautiful!" Jimmy Westlake, an astronomy professor at Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs, Colo., said of the view moments before the beginning of totality, when the moon is fully engulfed in Earth's shadow. Westlake was viewing this eclipse from near Dublin, Ga.
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