Moon Events Over Boston

Project #1334 on iSENSEProject.org

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To the moon lovers out there - these visualizations show the nights/days that the following can be viewed from the Boston area: Full Moon, Total Lunar Eclipse, Penumbral, Partial Solar Eclipse, and a Partial Lunar Eclipse.  

This collected data is for the years 2015 through 2016.
(source: http://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/usa/boston?year=2015)

Some of you may wonder what some of these terms mean.  Here's a cheat sheet!

Full Moon - The phase of the moon at which the moon, as viewed from Earth, appears to be fully illuminated by the Sun.  The full phase marks the halfway point of a single revolution around the Earth.

Penumbral - A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon align in an almost straight line. When this happens, the Earth blocks some of the Sun's light from directly reaching the Moon's surface, and covers a small part of the Moon with the outer part of its shadow, also known as the penumbra.

Partial Solar Eclipse - Partial Solar eclipses happen when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth, but they don't align in a perfectly straight line.  Because of this, the Moon only partially covers the Sun's disc.

Partial Lunar Eclipse - A partial lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon but the 3 celestial bodies do not form a perfectly straight line in space. When that happens, a small part of the Moon's surface is covered by the darkest, central part of the Moon's surface is covered by the darkest, central part of the Earth's shadow, called the umbra.

Total Lunar Eclipse - A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the sun, Earth and moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can occur only the night of a full moon. 

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