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Shown here is the fourth contact of the Lunar Eclipse also called the end of the total eclipse when the Moon's outer limb exits the Earth's umbra. This video is showing the eclipse which occured on the 10th of December 2011 as seen from the roof of Wilderness Films India Ltd., New Delhi. The moon's bright white glow turned into coppery, luminescent orange as the lunar surface was completely covered by the earth's shadow during the last total lunar eclipse of this year. The 51 minute-long spectacle of the moon being eclipsed and then turning cerise was visible all over the country, including the national capital. The earth passed between the sun and the moon, casting a ruddy orange glow across the shiny, meteorite-battered lunar surface. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth in course of it
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