Blue Moon Eclipse
Posted by JAC on 1/1/2010, 9:34 am
Blue moons--rare. Blue moons on New Year's Eve--really rare. A lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on New Year's Eve--well, that's just ridiculous.

Yet that's exactly what happened yesterday in Europe, Asia, Africa and parts of Alaska. The Blue moon on New Year's Eve passed through the outskirts of Earth's shadow, producing this 8% lunar eclipse:






"The skies over Alaska were crystal-clear Thursday morning, affording onlookers a nice view of the eclipse of the Blue moon," says photographer Dave Parkhurst on the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet. "It was a nice way to start the last day of the year."

For the record, the average annual rate of blue Moons is 0.37 per year. The rate of Blue moons on New Year's Eve is 0.05 per year. The rate of lunar eclipses of Blue moons on New Year's Eve is 0.01 per year.
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