Photos: Clouds part and make way for deep lunar eclipse
Skywatchers in the Washington D.C. area successfully viewed a deep lunar eclipse after clouds cleared at the peak of the event. Readers shared photos of the moon, which appeared in a copper tone as Earth's shadow covered 95 percent of its surface.
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The sky forecast was in question all week: Would it be too cloudy to see the almost total lunar eclipse ? The answer turned out to be no.
Patient skywatchers around the DC area who stayed up late saw the clouds break up just enough — and just in time — to witness the peak of Thursday night's deep lunar eclipse.
At mid-eclipse, at 12:13 a.m. Friday, Earth's shadow covered about 95 percent of the Moon's disc, which transformed from gleaming yellow to a subtle copper tone.
Below find pictures from Capital Weather readers from around the area:
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