Lunar Eclipse
The next lunar eclipse visible from York PA and surrounding areas will be June 26th 2010
Partial Eclipse of the Moon
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
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W076 44, N39 58
Eastern Daylight Time
Moon's
Azimuth Altitude
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Moonrise 2010 Jun 25 20:17 123.0 ----
Moon enters penumbra 2010 Jun 26 04:55.5 230.9 5.5
Moonset 2010 Jun 26 05:37 237.7 ----
See visibility chart: June 26th Eclipse
The next lunar eclipse visible from York PA. will be December 21st 2010
Total Eclipse of the Moon
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
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W076 44, N39 58
Eastern Standard Time
Moon's
Azimuth Altitude
h m o o
Moonrise 2010 Dec 20 16:12 57.9 ----
Moon enters penumbra 2010 Dec 21 00:27.7 203.2 72.5
Moon enters umbra 2010 Dec 21 01:32.3 236.9 64.5
Moon enters totality 2010 Dec 21 02:40.4 255.8 52.8
Middle of eclipse 2010 Dec 21 03:17.0 262.9 46.1
Moon leaves totality 2010 Dec 21 03:53.6 269.0 39.3
Moon leaves umbra 2010 Dec 21 05:01.7 278.9 26.6
Moon leaves penumbra 2010 Dec 21 06:06.1 287.7 15.0
Moonset 2010 Dec 21 07:40 301.2 ----
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About an Eclipse
According to folklore, a full moon is called the "Hunter's Moon" or sometimes the "Blood Moon." It gets its name from hunters who tracked and killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of the woods. At first it will seem pale and cold, as usual. And then ... blood red.
What makes the eclipsed moon turn red? The answer lies inside Earth's shadow, Our planet casts a long shadow. It starts on the ground--Step outside at night. You're in Earth's shadow. Think about it!--and it stretches almost a million miles into space, far enough to reach the moon.
Suppose you had a personal spaceship. Here's your mission: Tonight, at midnight, blast off and fly down the middle of Earth's shadow. Keep going until you're about 200,000 miles above Earth, almost to the moon. Now turn around and look down. The view from your cockpit window is Earth's nightside, the dark half of our planet opposite the sun. But it's not completely dark! All around Earth's limb, the atmosphere glows red.
What you're seeing is every sunrise and sunset on Earth--all at once. This ring of light shines into Earth's shadow, breaking the utter darkness you might expect to find there. Turn off the cockpit lights. There's a lovely red glow.
That same red light plays across the moon when it's inside Earth's shadow. The exact color depends on what's floating around in Earth's atmosphere. Following a volcanic eruption, for instance, dust and ash can turn global sunsets vivid red. The moon would glow vivid red, too. Lots of clouds, on the other hand, extinguish sunsets, leading to darker, dimmer eclipses. Courtesy of NASA by Dr. Tony Phillips