Lunar Eclipse of April 2015

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Lunar Eclipse of April 2015

Lunar Eclipse of April 2015
The lunar eclipse of April 4, 2015. The view is from downtown Denver looking west towards the Front Range mountains. The mountain on the right is Squaw Peak. Image credit: Jeffrey Beall [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
A total lunar eclipse took place on 4 April 2015. It is the former of two total lunar eclipses in 2015, and the third in a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of 15 April 2014, 8 October 2014, and 28 September 2015.

Totality lasted only 4 minutes and 43 seconds,[1] making it the shortest lunar totality in almost five centuries since 17 October 1529 (which lasted 1 minute and 42 seconds). The next very short lunar totality will be 2 minutes and 36 seconds on 11 September 2155. This was the sixth total lunar eclipse out of nine with totality under 5 minutes in a five millennium period between 2,000 BC and 3,000 AD.

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Video: BLOOD MOON -Total LUNAR ECLIPSE April 4 2015 Time lapse video

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