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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Winter solstice eclipse

Some time ago I posted a series on the last visible spectacular total lunar eclipse [Feb. 2008, scroll down to entire series]. Now in Florida over the Christmas break, last night I managed to stay up into the wee hours of 2 am to 5 am (EST) to get some shots of the unusual winter solstice eclipse. A series of four images is below. Officially, winter solstice occurred at 6:38 pm this evening. Happy solstice!!

2:18 am 12-21-2010
Part-way to totality

3:18 am 12-21-2010
Mid totality

4:05 am 12-21-2010
Just after totality

4:45 am 12-21-2010
Almost over

Posted by The Owl on Dec 21 at 21:07. Filed under: Nature photography

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