Gorgeous Images of the August 2017 Partial Lunar Eclipse

By Nancy Atkinson - August 8, 2017 at 2:44 PM UTC | Observing
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Just to get you in the mood for the upcoming total solar eclipse -- now less than two weeks away -- our Solar System put on a little eclipse display of the lunar kind on August 7. The full Moon passed through part of the Earth's umbral shadow, and the timing made this partial lunar eclipse visible in parts of Europe and Africa.

Thanks to our friends around the world who posted in

Universe Today's Flickr page

, we've got images to share! Enjoy the views! Click on all the images to see larger versions of them on Flickr. The lead image link is

here

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And for those of you in the path of the August 21 solar eclipse, please feel free to share your images on our

Flickr page,

and we may feature them in an upcoming article.

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A composite of images take during the August 2017 lunar eclipse, as see from Kuala Lumpur. Credit and copyright: Shahrin Ahmad. [/caption]

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Partial lunar eclipse seen from Lausanne's lakeshore in Switzerland … The Moon had just moved up from behind the Tour d'Aï Peaks. Credit and copyright: Hicham Dennaoui. [/caption]

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Partial Eclipse of Moon over the Church of Our Lady of the Bell in Casarano, Sicily, Italy. Single photo taken with a Konus 80/400 telescope and Canon 700d camera. Credit and copyright: Gianluca Belgrado. [/caption]

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Eclipsed full moon over the eastern horizon as seen from Treppendorf, Brandenburg, Germany. Credit and copyright: Andreas Schnabel.[/caption]

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Partial lunar eclipse of August 7th 2017, as seen from Bavaria, Germany at around 19:17 UTC. Shot with an EOS 550D mounted to a Meade ETX 70 Telescope. Exposure was 1/125 seconds with ISO 100. Credit and copyright:

Stephan Haverland.

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The partial lunar eclipse as see from Czolpino, Pomerania, Poland. Credit and copyright:

Pawel Warchal.

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A view of the partial lunar eclipse on August 7, 2017 as seen from Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit and copyright: Leonard Ellul-Mercer.

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Here is a video of additional images from Leonard Mercer:

You can watch a reply of a live webcast from the

Virtual Telescope Project

of the partial lunar eclipse seen from Rome:

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com