This picture showed a crescent moon that was one day old on Monday, December 6. The moon had just passed in front of Mars which can be seen as a little point of light near the right edge of the moon. This is also known as the occultation of Mars. This picture was taken from De Soto, Kansas. As amazing as this is, the even that people will be looking forward to this month is the total lunar eclipse on the night of December 20 to the 21st. When the moon is completely in Earth's shadow, the moon's surface will appear red because the surface will still be illuminated by the sunlight, reddened and refracted into the dark shadow region by a dusty atmosphere. This will be a wonderful thing to see because I have never seen a lunar eclipse before. Astronomy is a great subject to study because you an actually go outside and see what you've learned.
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