Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                              2021 November 20
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                        An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse
                Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Robert Fedez

   Explanation: Predawn hours of November 19 found the Moon in partly
   cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico. Captured in this [5]telephoto
   snapshot, the lunar disk is not quite entirely immersed in Earth's dark
   [6]umbral shadow during a long partial lunar eclipse. The partial
   eclipse was deep though, deep enough to show the dimmed but reddened
   light in Earth's shadow. [7]That's a sight often anticipated by [8]fans
   of total lunar eclipses. Wandering through the constellation Taurus,
   the eclipsed [9]Moon's dimmer light also made it easier to spot the
   Pleiades star cluster. The stars of the [10]Seven Sisters share this
   frame at the upper right, with the [11]almost totally eclipsed Moon.

    Notable APOD Submissions (so far): [12]Lunar Eclipse of 2021 November
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                      Tomorrow's picture: X-ray Sun Day
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    Authors & editors: [24]Robert Nemiroff ([25]MTU) & [26]Jerry Bonnell
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                           & [33]Michigan Tech. U.

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