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It snowed here

We can predict a few things about lunar eclipses. We can tell you when they'll start and when they'll finish. We can tell you if it'll be a partial or a complete. But we can't tell you ahead of time what colour it will be. It could be pink, brown, deep red, orange. And the halo that surrounds the moon during the eclipse, we can't tell you what colour that will be either. Ranging anywhere from bright yellow to a cool blue. And those colours will change as the eclipse goes through it's cycle.

Last night, we had an eclipse. It started at 17:18, became complete at 19:44, which lasted until 20:58, and the moon was entirely visible again at 23:24. Astronomers rated it a 3 or a 4 on on the Danjon scale, which means that the moon was somewhere between a deep red and a brick red in colouration. The halo around the moon was yellowish in colour and quite bright.

That's what the news reports said.

It snowed here.

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