Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Tue Jan 22 2019 07:35:30 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 22 [2] Lunar Eclipse over Cologne Cathedral Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Junius [3] Explanation: Why would a bright full Moon suddenly become dark? Because it entered [4] the shadow of the Earth [5] . That's what happened Sunday night [6] as the Moon underwent a total lunar eclipse [7] . Dubbed by some as a Super [8] (because the Moon was angularly larger than usual, at least slightly) Blood [9] (because the scattering of sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere makes an eclipsed Moon appeared unusually red) Wolf [10] (because January full moons are sometimes called Wolf Moons from the legend [11] that wolves like to howl at the moon) Moon Eclipse, the shadowy spectacle [12] was visible from the half of the Earth [13] then facing the Moon [14] , and was captured in numerous spectacular photographs [15] . Featured, a notable image sequence was captured over the Cologne Cathedral [16] , a UNESCO World Heritage Site [17] , in Cologne [18] , Germany [19] . The lunar eclipse [20] sequence was composed from [21] 68 different exposures captured over three hours during freezing temperatures -- and later digitally combined and edited to remove a cyclist and a pedestrian. The next total lunar eclipse will occur [22] in 2021. Gallery: Sunday Night's Total Lunar Eclipse [23] Tomorrow's picture: icy orion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [24] | Archive [25] | Submissions [26] | Index [27] | Search [28] | Calendar [29] | RSS [30] | Education [31] | About APOD [32] | Discuss [33] | > [34] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [35] (MTU [36] ) & Jerry Bonnell [37] (UMCP [38] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [39] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [40] A service of: ASD [41] at NASA [42] / GSFC [43] & Michigan Tech. U. [44] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/LunarEclipseCologne_Junius_1280.jpg [3] https://photo.m-j-s.net/blog/about/ [4] ap190120.html [5] https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/wp-content/uploads/sites/193/2018/07/ LEDiagram1c.jpg [6] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2019-january-21 [7] ap180128.html [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon [9] https://earthsky.org/human-world/what-is-a-blood-moon-lunar-eclipses-2014-2015 [10] https://youtu.be/F-oAaElViaU [11] http://mentalfloss.com/article/51517/are-wolves-really-howling-moon [12] ap180209.html [13] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/ [14] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/ [15] https://www.facebook.com/pg/AstronomyPictureOfTheDay/photos/ ?tab=album&album_id=2020527551316029 [16] https://youtu.be/1EH_vh3lorw [17] https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/292 [18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne [19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany [20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse [21] https://photo.m-j-s.net/blog/2019/01/lunar-eclipse-21-jan-2019/ [22] https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEdecade/LEdecade2021.html [23] https://www.facebook.com/pg/AstronomyPictureOfTheDay/photos/ ?tab=album&album_id=2020527551316029 [24] ap190121.html [25] archivepix.html [26] lib/apsubmit2015.html [27] lib/aptree.html [28] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [29] calendar/allyears.html [30] /apod.rss [31] lib/edlinks.html [32] lib/about_apod.html [33] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190122 [34] ap190123.html [35] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [36] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [37] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [38] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [39] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [40] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [41] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [42] https://www.nasa.gov/ [43] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [44] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .