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SFWA member and amateur astronomer Jerry Oltion photographed the total lunar eclipse of August 28, 2007, through his telescope. He compiled a montage of images showing the Moon entering the Earth's shadow, during totality, and emerging out the other side. The montage shows the size of Earth's shadow in space at the distance of the Moon's orbit. The Moon moved through it from right to left. The image of totality is a much longer exposure than the other two, and is red because the Moon is dimly lit by light refracted through Earth's atmosphere — in effect a ring of sunsets and sunrises illuminating the eclipsed Moon.
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