This total lunar eclipse will be among the best three of the past 100 years based on the length and totality that has been said to have lasted about 100 minutes. It is said to be the longest eclipse since 2000 according to astronomers, so people should have had plenty of time to have a good look at it, only it was before dawn June 16, 2011 here when it happened.
Total Lunar Eclipse June 2011 (AP photo source)
I missed it. I went to sleep before one in the morning but was really to sleepy and just not brave enough to go out from the gate and on the street just to have a good look at it. I just wished I had a souvenir photo of it but since I was asleep the whole time it happened, I just have to make do looking at the nice photos found all over the internet.
The said total lunar eclipse was said to have been visible over more than half the globe. People throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia should have been able to see it. It was to be one of the darkest eclipses on record, due to an unusually straight alignment between sun, moon and Earth.
Have you seen the Google Doodle this morning? It shows Google has a doodle of the 100-minute-long eclipse. It shows the real-time footage coming from cameras in South Africa, Dubai and the Canary Islands, will update every two minutes.
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