A sequence of images from the
28 August 2007 lunar eclipse from
Swifts Creek, Victoria,
Australia. Each image was taken at about a three-minute interval except the last image in the sequence which shows what the moon looked like at about the middle of the
eclipse. The majority of the
Americas observed an abbreviated eclipse, with moonset occurring at some time during the eclipse.
Siberia,
far eastern Russia, eastern
South Asia,
China, the rest of eastern and southeastern
Asia, New Guinea, and the rest of Australia missed out on the beginning of the eclipse, because the eclipse occurred at or close to
moonrise in those regions. The
Philippines, particularly
Metro Manila, missed the rare eclipse entirely, due to clouds from the rainy season.
Photo credit: Fir0002