The moon entered the Earth’s shadow just after 6 a.m. local time before slipping below the horizon as it set to the west. For more than an hour, the moon slowly faded from view as the shadow cut a swath across the gray features of the moon.
After the shadow enveloped the whole of Luna, it took on a pale red glow from sunlight scattering through a thin layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.
A layer of clouds and light fog obscured some of the eclipse viewing in the San Joaquin Valley, as the full, eclipsed moon sank low on the horizon before setting.
A solar eclipse, when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, is predicted for May 20, 2012, and will be visible in part from Tracy.
It is very interesting to me