The Spectacle
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Active until | 2006 |
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Origin | Bodø Municipality |
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About The Spectacle
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade: Annual event stars SpongeBob and minor protest
... Those enjoying the parade included families who had travelled long distances to see The Spectacle...
Laura Kuenssberg: Reshuffle deals drama but voters more worried about wallets
... Fully paid-up political nerds, myself included, have been glued to The Spectacle of the last seven days...
Remembrance Day: King Charles leads wreath-laying on Whitehall
... Here were families making sure their loved ones were remembered and here were people who had come to see The Spectacle, but also to pay their respects...
Can Rishi Sunak's switch from Mr Steady to Mr Change work?
... Quite The Spectacle: the person who was prime minister a year ago rolling up to say the current prime minister is getting it all wrong...
Kim Jong Un-Putin talks: What do the optics tell us?
... But beyond The Spectacle and bombast, observers question whether the meeting achieved any concrete deals...
Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle
... Photographers who stayed up to catch a glimpse of The Spectacle shared their images with the BBC...
Blue supermoon: World gazes at rare lunar phenomenon
... In the UK, the best time to see The Spectacle will be in early hours of Thursday morning...
Super blue Moon: Rare spectacle set to light up skies
... If the skies are clear, the best time to see The Spectacle in the UK will be in early hours of Thursday morning...
In pictures: 'Super blood wolf moon'
The start of the total Lunar Eclipse seen in San Diego, California
Stargazers have been scanning The Skies for sightings of a highly unusual Lunar Eclipse , which began on Sunday Night .
During The Spectacle , known as a "super blood Wolf moon", The Moon appears to glow red while seeming brighter and closer to Earth than normal.
The Event was initially visible from North and South America , as well as areas of Western Europe . In parts of the UK some clouds obscured The View .
The next total Lunar Eclipse is expected in two years, on 26 May 2021.
"A little bit of sunlight is refracted by the Earth 's atmosphere and reaches The Moon , bending around the edges of the Earth ," says Walter Freeman, an assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University in New York state.
"This small amount of Red Light still illuminates The Moon enough for us to see it. "
The total Lunar Eclipse , seen here from Madrid The Best Time to see the totality of The Eclipse was around 05:12 GmtThis kind of eclipse occurs When the Earth passes precisely between The Sun and The Moon .
In this situation, The Sun is behind the Earth , and The Moon moves into the Earth 's shadow.
The Eclipse began at 02:35 Gmt on Monday and ended at 07:49 Gmt , but The Point of greatest eclipse occurred at 05:12 Gmt .
All the phases of the so-called super blood Wolf moon, seen here from Panama CityThe rare celestial event gets the "super" part of its name from the fact that The Moon will be near its closest approach to the Earth - When it will be marginally bigger in the sky than usual.
The "Wolf " part comes from the name given to full moons in January - "Wolf moons".
The celestial event, seen here from Brighton, UK, was later blocked by some clouds The Moon seen beside a quadriga on top of the Cinquantenaire arch in Brussels A view of the Lunar Eclipse above the St Elizabeth Church in Nuremberg, GermanyMany of you have been sending your photographs to the BBC. Here is a selection of your images:
Armed with a 500mm lens and an All important cup of coffee, Tom Starr took this snap in his pyjamas at home in Speldhurst, Kent, England Peter Simmans took this photo of The Blood moon alongside All Saints Church in Brightlingsea, Essex, England Peter Alden took this shot through the trees from outside his home in Seaford in East Sussex , England Joe Sheridan , who completed a photography degree three years ago aged 60, plans to enter this in the Washington Camera Club competition in the north east of England. Peter Simmans took this photo of The Blood moon alongside All Saints Church in Brightlingsea, Essex, Englandthe moon, eclipses
Source of news: bbc.com