Moontanman Posted December 19, 2010 Posted December 19, 2010 Total Lunar Eclipse and Winter Solstice Coincide on Dec. 21 Path of the Moon through Earth's umbral and penumbral shadows during the Total Lunar Eclipse of Dec. 21, 2010. (Credit: Fred Espenak/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2010) — With frigid temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice on December 21 may not be an occasion many people feel like celebrating. But a dazzling total lunar eclipse to start the day might just raise a few chilled spirits. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217192856.htm
imatfaal Posted December 20, 2010 Posted December 20, 2010 Here in the UK we might just get to see it on the way to work - if we are mad wage slaves up and about before dawn. Full eclipse however is after sunrise - so no chance of seeing the full eclipse; shame, the druid sorts would be going mad trying to get into Stonehenge for a total eclipse on the winter solstice. I think the major stones line up for the equinoxes rather than the solstices but would still be worth seeing.
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