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Great photos of March 3rd lunar eclipse and info on future ones

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Some of the words describing the March 3rd total lunar eclipse were “thrilling”, “exciting”, “delight”, and “thriller”—of course others (like this journalist in Illinois) were disappointed with cloudy conditions.

Paul Harper, chairman of the Croydon Astronomical Society (London, England), estimated that the Moon lost more than four-fifths of its luminosity. He commented on CNN.com, "It was really very dark. It was quite a nice one."

Very good photographs of the March 3rd eclipse can be found at AstroNet. For future eclipses, this Web site shows various live Webcasts for events around the world.

In case inclement weather or other factors caused you to miss March 3rd’s eclipse, the next total lunar eclipse will be August 27, 2007. It will be especially visible from western North America and the Pacific Rim.

Then, on February 21, 2008, another total lunar eclipse will take place that should be observable by most of North America.

To find out if you will be able to observe these eclipses and others in the next few years, see the complete listing of 2001-2010 lunar eclipses at the NASA Eclipse Home Page.

For an explanation of the science behind a total lunar eclipse, go to the CNN Web page (WATCH VIDEO section on the right): http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/.

For additional information about the March 3rd eclipse, go to the ITwire article "By the glow of the coppery Moon: check out lunar eclipse March 3rd".

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