Beaver County News | 1921-04-13 | Page 1 | Lunar Eclipse

v LUNAR ECLIPSE The total Lunar Eclipse of April 21-22 21-22 will be visible throughout - the United States. The moon is north of the center of the earths shadow, but nevertheless near enough to it to become be-come completely immersed. At 11:-57 11:-57 p. m. on the 21st the moon first! touches the puenumbra but it will not be till well after midnight that the darkening becomes conspicuous. At 1:03 a. m., the edge of the true shadow is reached, and more and more of the moon will be hidden until un-til at 2:23 it is completely obscured except for the faint reddish light refracted re-fracted -through the earth's atmosphere. atmos-phere. Totality lasts only 42 minutes, minu-tes, and the moon is entirely clear of the shadow at 4:26 though it does not leave the penumbra until 5:22. The bright star, Spica will be within with-in 10 degrees of the eclipsed moon, making a very pretty spectacle for anyone who gets up to see it.