Friday, April 10, 2015


APOD 4.3: A Golden Gate Eclipse 

This is a panoramic view of the lunar eclipse in San Francisco on April 4th, over the Golden Gate Bridge.  The shortest lunar eclipse of the century, this eclipse was also the third in a string of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, a series known as a tetrad. The previous two were April 15 and October 18. The next and final eclipse will be on September 28, this 2014-2015 tetrad is one of the 8 total lunar eclipse tetrads in the 21st century. 

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