Partial Eclipse of the Moon

The Earth's shadow crossing the Moon, October 24, 1874.

Chart: The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
Plate: Plate VII
Astronomer: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Date: 1881
Held by: New York Public Library · via Wikimedia Commons

Plate VIIas observed October 24, 1874

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The story

Plate VII of The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881, from Étienne Léopold Trouvelot's observation of October 24, 1874. A lunar eclipse comes when the Moon passes through Earth's shadow, in the season when the Moon's orbit lines up with Earth and Sun. Unlike an eclipse of the Sun it can be seen from anywhere on the night side of the Earth, it often lasts an hour or longer, and it is safe to watch with the bare eye. The shadowed Moon turns orange or red. On this night only part of the Moon went into the shadow, and Trouvelot drew the line where it fell.

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