Beginning of the partial eclipse - U1, in Delhi

From the archive record

Shown here is the video of the Lunar Eclipse which occurred on the 10th of December 2011. This footage has been shot from the Ring Road, New Delhi and it shows the second contact called as U1, which is the beginning of the partial eclipse where the Earth's umbra touches the Moon's outer limb. 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