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Lunar darkness in the dawn

This year’s only lunar eclipse for Australia will be a partial eclipse, and a fairly poor one at that. Occurring on the morning of July 17, the Moon will slide into the Earth’s shadow as dawn twilight is beginning (for eastern states), before (for

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