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- Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:25 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Lunar Eclipse (2010 December) Images
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Motion of the Moon During the Eclipse
http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~steinberg/astro2/solar_system/moon/Lunar_Motion-31x8sec.jpg North is up in the image. Since the eclipse occurred very nearly at the time of the winter solstice, the ecliptic (the apparent path of the sun against the stars) was oriented nearly exactly east-west (horizo...