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Date Posted: Saturday, August 25, 11:36:59pm Welcome to NEWS.com.au. Skip to: Search Box Section Navigation Network Navigation Content View the Sitemap NEWS.com.au Network NEWS.com.au | FOX SPORTS | CLASSIFIEDS | MOBILE SEARCH FOR: Site Local Web enhanced by Google Network Highlights: Subscribe now to receive live AFL score alerts straight to your mobile phone » News Business Breaking News Markets Personal Finance Property Business Owner Business Sense Forbes Galleries Entertainment Confidential Movies Television Music Games Fashion Horoscopes body+soul Puzzles Galleries Travel Australia World Holiday Ideas Bookings & Offers Activities City Guides Travel Advice & Tools Travel Tips Galleries Archives Opinions Readers' Comments Daily Cartoons Most Popular Blogs Video Mobile Mobile/PDA Games, Tones & Wallpapers CARSguide.mobi 3 Telstra Optus Vodafone Tools News Alerts RSS Feeds Email Newsletter AUSTRALIAN IT FOX SPORTS CLASSIFIEDS Local Business Jobs Cars Property Home Improvement Dating General Trader ads Personal ads Travel ads Announcements ads Place a classified newspaper ad Weekend Shopper NEWS NETWORK NEWS.com.au The Australian The Daily Telegraph The Courier-Mail Herald Sun AdelaideNow PerthNow The Mercury NT News Community Papers Breaking News National World In-depth Features The Other Side Weather Interactives Galleries Archives News Lab Get ready for total lunar eclipse August 26, 2007 04:04pm Article from: Agence France-PresseFont size: + - Send this article: Print Email THE moon will fall into Earth's deep shadow on Tuesday, taking on a lustrous red or orange hue during the second total eclipse of 2007. Star gazers will be able to watch as our planet's natural satellite is consumed by celestial dragons, as the Chinese once thought. Those in the Pacific basin, from eastern Australia to the west coast of the north America, will be treated to the full eclipse at 10.37 GMT (8.37pm AEST) and a couple hours before sunrise in Los Angeles and Vancouver. The perfect spot for spectators will be French Polynesia, according to NASA, but the eclipse will not be visible at all in Europe or Africa. The moon does not disappear from view during a full eclipse, but is shielded by Earth for about 90 minutes from the sun's direct light. The longest possible duration for the total phase is 107 minutes, and last occurred in July 2000. A total eclipse can only take place at full moon, and only if the moon passes through the zone, called the umbra, in which the Earth blocks all of the sun's rays. The colour cast by refracted light - which can range from bright orange to blood red to copper to dark grey - depends on the amount of volcanic gas and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun's light. In the absence of recent eruptions, the moon should be a vivid red or orange, according to NASA. Total lunar eclipses normally occur roughly every couple of years, but this year there will have been two, the other having taken place on March 3. The next chance to see the moon slip entirely into terrestrial shadows will be on February 21, 2008, but after that the wait is longer: December 2010. 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