January 18, 2020
Somewhere between the hydrogen and the starlight, between the gravity and the grace, the universe conspired to bring you into being.
An Almost Eclipse of the Moon
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APOD published January 18, 2020. Credit: Gyorgy Soponyai. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
This composited series of images follows the Moon on January 10, the first Full Moon of 2020, in Hungarian skies. The lunar disk is in mid-eclipse at the center of the sequence though. It looks only slightly darker there as it passes through the light outer shadow or penumbra of planet Earth. In fact during this penumbral lunar eclipse the Moon almost crossed into the northern edge of Earth's dark central shadow or umbra. Subtle and hard to see, this penumbral lunar eclipse was the first of four lunar eclipses in 2020, all of which will be penumbral lunar eclipses.
Image credit: Gyorgy Soponyai