A partially eclipsed full moon, coppery orange in Earth's shadow with a pale cream crescent, against a dark navy sky.

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No. 152 of 248 · The Natural History Series

Eclipse of the Moon

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E. L. Trouvelot's eclipse of the moon glows coppery red against a dark sky, a thin pale crescent still catching the light. Trouvelot drew the heavens through the great telescopes at Harvard, and his pastels were printed in colour in the 1880s. For someone who loves the night sky.

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From the great astronomy books of the 1800s / Eclipse of the Moon / The moon in the Earth's shadow / In an eclipse the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and turns a coppery red, lit only by the sunsets and sunrises all around the Earth. / The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1881-82 / E. L. Trouvelot drew the sky through the great telescopes at Harvard; his pastels were printed in colour by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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