What really happens when the moon is eclipsed?
The whole of 1962 went by without giving us a single chance to see an eclipse of the moon. But in 1960 the sky watchers of North America were treated to two magnificent lunar eclipses. And so it goes. In some years we get none, in some years we get one and in other years we get two eclipses of the moon. Once in a great, great while there are three lunar eclipses in a single year. North America must wait for its next lunar eclipse until December 30 of 1963. The awesome spectacle will last for about three and a half hours and for one hour and twenty four minutes our moon will be totally eclipsed in the coppery, red shadow of its mother planet, the earth. The year 1963 will corns to a close with this dramatic, heavenly spectacle. The round earth, the moon and all the solid bodies of the Solar System have shadows pointing out into space. You cast a shadow because your solid body shuts off some of the beaming rays of the sun. So it is with our big, round earth. Its solid globe shuts off som
