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Rarotonga sky gazers witness spectacular ‘blood moon’

Thursday 27 May 2021 | Written by Caleb Fotheringham | Published in Local, National

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Rarotonga sky gazers witness spectacular ‘blood moon’
This time lapse sequence shows a Full Moon “floating” in the reddish Earth’s shadow, captured in 2018 in Thailand. The Moon is strangely orange and red during the total eclipse, but after this phase it starts to secede from the shadow and an hour and half later there is a common Full Moon in the sky again. Photo by Petr Horálek/21052126

Eager Rarotonga residents stayed up late Tuesday night and some crawled out of bed in the wee hours of Wednesday morning in the hope to view a super blood moon.

Eager Rarotonga residents stayed up late Tuesday night and some crawled out of bed in the wee hours of Wednesday morning in the hope to view a super blood moon.


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