The total lunar eclipse of 3.14.25 was beautiful.
It is not often we can view Spaceship Earth, the planet beneath our feet, as it traverses the solar system.
As Earth crossed the moon, our shadow reddened the lunar disk. Sunlight slipping through our atmosphere landed on the lunar surface as long wavelengths of burnt sienna.
From the moon, the same event appears as a total solar eclipse. For this eclipse, a small commercial lander watched the cosmic alignment, a syzgy, from the surface of the moon itself.
As Earth exited the lunar disk, a bright green fireball arced under the moon from my vantage point.
Quite a show.

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