Lunar Eclipse

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I had hoped to photograph the lunar eclipse occurring as the moon set early this morning but it was obscured by overcast skies.  I had to settle for this photo of the full moon rising this evening.  Even though it is in the shadow of the sun, a lunar eclipse produces a “blood moon” illuminated by diffracted sunlight traveling through the earth’s atmosphere which both “bends” it and gives it a reddish-orange tint.