Curiosities of the eclipse of May 15/16.
Curiosities of the eclipse of May 15/16.
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The eclipse that happened was perfectly seen in much of North America and South America, in this total lunar eclipse is when the moon falls within the darkest part of the earth's shadow called the umbra.
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No special equipment was needed to observe the lunar eclipse, the moon was easily seen although of course if you had binoculars or a telescope you could see it in more detail and it is always nice to see the mountains and lunar craters that are otherworldly landscapes.
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One more curious fact, the spacecraft lucy that is currently traveling to study the trojan asteroids of jupiter, turned its camera towards the earth to observe the eclipse for five hours, it will be a curious sight because the spacecraft is now at 96 million and a half kilometers away and in this way astronomers want to have an image of what they look like in a lunar eclipse from such a distant distance, perhaps it will help us to discover details when these planets are explored with more powerful telescopes such as the james webb; perhaps we can discover exomoons orbiting distant planets in other star systems.
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