Lunar Eclipse (Photo : REUTERS/Steve Dipaola)
On April 4, this century's shortest lunar eclipse showed the many colors of natural beauty to amazed stargazers as it changed colors from Yellow to Pale Yellow, to blood red, to grayish blue in a duration of less than 10 minutes.
It was a rainbow in the space, according to some.
On the east of the Mississippi river, the amazing colors of the total lunar eclipse were briefly visible. The moon, then, slowly slipped below the horizon.
During the eclipse, the moon's orbital path crossed the outskirts of the umbra, becoming a complete total eclipse for only a little time.
The moon technically submerged in shadow of earth. But, some sunlight still bent around earth's edge and reached the moon's surface to make it an adorable piece of art in the sky.
The weekend's one was the third of total four lunar eclipses, famously called a tetrad. The kind of pattern it showed won't be visible again for as long as next 20 years.
The first two eclipsed happened in April and September 2014.
If you missed the spectacular views, wait for the last eclipse of the tetrad that will happen on September 28, 2015. It will be nothing less than amazing, although not as much as the one that occurred on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Slooh webcast of the lunar eclipse, hosted by Eric Edelman with commentary from astronomer Will Gater, never failed to increase the likeliness, with a bit of scientific twist.
Edelman called it "fantastically unique."
"If we didn't know better we'd say this isn't totality yet," Slooh astronomer Bob Berman said.
Later, Berman commented that the lunar eclipse of April 4, 2015 was the "weirdest" in his life, according to Christian Science Monitor.
North and South America, Australia, Oceania, and Asia skywatchers saw the total lunar eclipse clearly. On the east coast of North America, a partial lunar eclipse was visible.
People in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East were unable to watch the eclipse, though. It seemed that they were in the wrong side of the planet, National Geographic reported.
However, everyone who saw the moon changing colors was amazed by the spectacular event.
"I just saw a partial eclipse this morning," reader Laura Austin, of Sarnia, Ontario in Canada, told.
"The moon ran out of sky and slipped behind the trees," she added.
