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Also visit:
Phases of the Moon - a
page I wrote about the phases of the moon,
Phases of
the Moon for a much more "flashy" presentation of the phases
of the moon and detailed descriptions for what causes them; and
Moon Phases Calendar to find out
what the moon will look like night-by-night.
Here is a really neat
animation of the
moon through an entire lunar cycle (from
Astronomy Picture
of the Day). More amazing animations of the moon, sun, planets, and
more can be found at
Antonio
Cidadao's Homepage of Time-lapse Animations
(Links to
sites with more Earth, Moon and Planet's Info)
These are pictures I took of the March 1997 partial Lunar Eclipse. They
show the development of the eclipse from just after the moon entered the
umbral shadow (the darkest part of the shadow), untill just past
mid-eclipse. This eclipse was a ~90% partial, so the moon was never
completely in shadow, only a small sliver remained at mid-eclipse.
E-mail to stark @ astro.psu.edu