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                              2021 November 20

                        An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse
                   Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Fedez

   Explanation: Predawn hours of November 19 found the Moon in partly
   cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico. Captured in this telephoto snapshot,
   the lunar disk is not quite entirely immersed in Earth's dark umbral
   shadow during a long partial lunar eclipse. The partial eclipse was
   deep though, deep enough to show the dimmed but reddened light in
   Earth's shadow. That's a sight often anticipated by fans of total lunar
   eclipses. Wandering through the constellation Taurus, the eclipsed
   Moon's dimmer light also made it easier to spot the Pleiades star
   cluster. The stars of the Seven Sisters share this frame at the upper
   right, with the almost totally eclipsed Moon.

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