Occulta
24-05-2013, 04:25 PM
As the first eclipse season of 2013 (http://astroguyz.com/2012/12/31/the-top-astronomy-events-for-2013/) comes to an end this weekend, an extremely subtle lunar eclipse (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2013-Fig03.pdf) occurs on the night of Friday, May 24th going into the morning of Saturday, May 25th. And we do mean subtle, as in invisible to the naked eye… this eclipse only lasts 34 minutes in duration and less than 2% of the disk of the Moon enters the bright outer penumbra of the Earth’s shadow!
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