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MOON TOUR FULL MOON

n 26 May one of nature’s most beautiful events will take place in the night sky: a total lunar eclipse. As the Moon slides into the long cone of shadow cast through space behind the Earth by the Sun, its normally silvery-white disc will darken from one side. Over several hours the darkened area will creep further and further across the disc until it completely covers it. Then the Moon will undergo a startling transformation

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