out and about - 2010
21 December 2010 .............. An eclipse of the moon
A technically awful picture of a full eclipse of the moon - but this was no ordinary eclipse of the moon.
It was the second eclipse in 2010, but much more important was the fact that it was an eclipse of the moon on the shortest day of the year - the last time there was a full eclipse of the moon on the shortest day of the year was in 1638, and these are the only occurrences of this in the last two thousand years.
So a bit of history here !
For those of you are interested in such things, the photo was taken at roughly 0735 GMT from the northern half of the UK.
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