CLEAR skies allowed for a perfect view of the last total lunar eclipse until 2014 in Ceduna on December 10.
West Coast Sentinel photographer Andrew Brooks stayed up late to capture these images of the event.
The eclipse was visible across Australia, New Zealand and Asia and last Saturday night.
Spectators watched the moon darken and turn red as the earth moved between the moon and the sun, causing the light from the sun to refract in the earth’s atmosphere, filtering out blue light. This process, called Rayleigh scattering, is the same phenomenon that makes the sky appear blue.
Partial lunar eclipses occur about twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
The whole event took 3.5 hours, with the earth’s shadow covering the moon for 51 minutes.
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