14 DAY TRIAL // A total lunar eclipse occurred this past Saturday, April 4, and thousands paused their night slumber to watch it. Unfortunately, not everybody got to witness this cosmic event.
This is because the eclipse was only visible from a select few regions across the globe, and totality only happened over a handful of countries. Bummer, right?
For those of you who missed this week’s total lunar eclipse, but also for those who feel like having another look at the Moon being engulfed by Earth’s shadow, here’s a time-lapse documenting the event.
The video was put together by space enthusiasts at the Griffith Observatory, a research facility located on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in the city of Los Angeles in California, US.
As detailed in the video’s description, the lunar eclipse played out over about four and a half hours and reached totality at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Once positioned in our planet’s shadow, the Moon turned a lovely red. This happened because of the light seeping towards it from sunrises and sunsets happening across the world.
Another total eclipse of the Moon will occur in just a few months, on September 28. Come March 9, 2016, we’ll get to observe a total solar eclipse, like the one that took place earlier this year, on March 20.
