There will be a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday, June 26, for folks in the central and western part of the United States. It’s in the morning, so you’ll have to get up early to see it. Here’s what it’ll look like, more or less, from the Mountain Time Zone (so mid-eclipse is at 06:38 central time or 04:38 Pacific):

The folks at Stardate.org have more info.

Introduction

While I was supposed to be working today, I was looking at the upcoming Coast to Coast AM late-night George Noory -hosted radio show. Tonight, February 15, 2010, they’re having what has been termed an “Astrology Special” with three astrologers coming in. I went to each of their websites just to nose around, and I found a page on Terry Nazon’s site dedicated to “The Mayan Prophecy of 2012.”

I’m an astronomer. Astrology is to astronomy what alchemy is to chemistry (or, for those about to take the SATs: astrology:astronomy::alchemy:chemistry). And, I’ve written many, many posts on the non-event of Planet X and 2012 (Planet X, 2012, and Planet X and 2012 — yes, those are different). So, this particular woman has combined two things that I just couldn’t help myself to post a break-down.

Partial lunar eclipse sequence.

by Elias Chasiotis
Markopoulo, Greece

I send you a composition image of the partial lunar eclipse of New Year's eve.
Only a small part of the full moon was covered by the earth's umbra, but still the eclipse was very beautiful.
The whole phenomenon lasted 4 hours, but the penumbral phases were very subtle, except when the moon was well into the penumbra.
Images were captured 15 minutes apart, so the whole composition shows the shape of the umbra and penumbra during two and a half hours ( 75 minutes before and after maximum eclipse).
Equipment used: Bresser Skylux 70mm F10 refractor, Canon EOS 450D, ISO 200, exposure 1/200 sec. Processing and composition in Photoshop CS3. 

Grazing the Umbra (Partial lunar eclipse 2009)

by Anthony Ayiomamitis