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There will be a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday morning, when the Earth casts a shadow onto the Moon.


On the day of the winter solstice, December 21, the full Moon will start to pass through the cone of Earth's shadow at 6.32am.

The partial eclipse begins when the Moon first enters the dark inner, umbral part of the Earth's shadow, and will become a total eclipse at 7.40am.

It will reach its maximum at 8.17am, and end at 8.

Interesting.  :)

what do you want us to do? Dance naked round an oak tree?  :D

IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, THEN DO IT    :D  ;D ;D

I have a feeling it should be an evergreen tree & it should also have a star on the top to remind us of the eclipse.

Don't we have to sow the magic onions or something.

Too cloudy to see the moon.
Too cold to dance naked around anything.
Too early to be bothered.

Thanks for sharing that info Jim. I found it very interesting. Shall be up looking for it. Hope I don't see them silly buggers dancing around tho that would be too much.

With sunrise at 8.11 it must be happening very close to the horizon but lots of clouds here.  Interest too but will also past on the nude prancing though worried this might adversely affect my crops next year.  Can I do a bit of kissing under the mistletoe instead?

Some details here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/20/lunar-eclipse-winter-solstice

Its never too cold to dance naked.   :P :P :P       :-*

Now im of to bed with the intension of making sure im watching the skys early (even if it is out the bedroom window with tea. but i bet around 9 ill have this feeling that ive forgotton to do something.

hope its a clear morning
x sunloving

can't wait for the days to grow longer again..... :-\

Can't see anything here this morning in Portsmouth but a great picture on breakfast TV from Belfast where there are clear skies.

We've got it outside now in Derby...  :)

Still under a thick blanket of cloud here, nothing to see, glad I stopped in bed.

Didn't see anything here in Sutton Coldfield.

I watched it from my bed- through the frost on the insideof the Velux!

Interesting to see but a bit disappointing in the climax- very pale and slightly pink rather than red. Radio 4 reckoned it was best north of Newcastle.

low cloud here  :(

Too much cloud and more snow to see anything here. Tsk, I prepared a naked dance and everything >:( ;D

Yes we are completely clouded in now, but I did notice that this morning it was unusually dark. Wonder if that was related?