Washington: A full lunar eclipse completed its course leaving stargazers gaping at the 'Blood Moon'.
The blood moon, and lunar eclipse was clearly visible from Canada, United States, and Australia, while India saw a partial eclipse.
Lunar eclipse witnessed from Kolkata pic.twitter.com/mrSn2EYLcG
— ANI (@ANI_news) October 8, 2014
According to the Huffington Post, scientists say that the moon will appear 5.3 per cent larger than the previous ‘blood moon’ since the eclipse is occurring two days after the moon was nearest to Earth.
#BloodMoon! Red & orange light scattered by the atmosphere. Watch: http://t.co/JAuaXWK4JD #LunarEclipse #eclipse pic.twitter.com/evVd0yUN9B
— NASA (@NASA) October 8, 2014You can hear running commentary of experts through the live streaming on UStream clicking on the link below.
Watch our #LunarEclipse live stream & join our live chat now: http://t.co/OeQaI8kWGA #bloodmoon #eclipse pic.twitter.com/C6pizjjj68
— NASA (@NASA) October 8, 2014These were the initial pictures tweeted by NASA when the Lunar Eclipse started its course.
Still awake? Lunar Eclipse from 4am ET - sunrise. We're up now answering your questions: http://t.co/OeQaI8kWGA pic.twitter.com/iqCWlRTYi2
— NASA (@NASA) October 8, 2014Lunar #eclipse is starting. Watch & learn more about them: [video] http://t.co/aUuD2UkrwX #bloodmoon #lunareclipse pic.twitter.com/iqmWsqUtaU
— NASA (@NASA) October 8, 2014Gorgeous photos of the Blood Moon, for those of us who slept through it: http://t.co/g9eN4nU5aq pic.twitter.com/7fKIj0Kxg5
— National Post (@nationalpost) October 8, 2014
Nasa provided live footage via telescope of the eclipse, showing a black shadow creeping across the moon in a crawl that took about an hour.
Watch this video to know how the phenomenon of ‘blood moon’ occurs.
