A lunar eclipse at sunrise
Sunday, December 19, 2010 - 18:20
in Astronomy & Space
People in the UK will have the chance to see a total eclipse of the Moon at sunrise on the morning of 21 December, the date of the winter solstice. Unusually, for British observers this eclipse includes a brief period when both the Sun and eclipsed Moon are above the horizon and precisely opposite each other in the sky...