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Lunar Eclipse On May 15-16

Posted by timothy on from the mark-your-lunar-calendars dept.

Sayten241 writes "MSNBC reports that on the night of May 15-16 skywatchers in the U.S., Europe and Africa will be able to witness the moon be completely eclipsed by the Earth's shadow. The show starts at 9:45 pm ET but starts getting good around 10:03 pm ET. The next Lunar eclipse will be on Nov 8-9 this year."

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  1. Cultural Bias? by pythorlh · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why is it that Africa and Europe are mentioned, when all of Europe and most of Africa will only be able to see part of the eclipse, at moon-set; but South America is not mentioned at all, when most of South America will be able to see the entire eclipse, weather permitting?

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