MOON IS IN TOTAL ECLIPSE.
Enters Penumbra of Earth's Shadow
at 12:12 A. M., and Emerges at
5:38 A. M. -- Sky Is Cloudy.
Those who were awake this morning to witness the total eclipse of the moon saw it through a hazy, cloudy sky. At intervals the eclipse was plain. From the time the moon entered the penumbra of the earth's shadow at 12:12 a. m., it remained either in total or partial eclipse until 5:38 a. m.
It was cloudy when it entered the penumbra and the course could not be traced plainly until after 1:11 a. m., the time it entered the true shadow of the earth's umbra. The moon was moving eastward just a little faster than the shadow of the earth, made by the sun on the opposite side.
At exactly 2:14 a. m. the moon became dark in the sky and forty-one minutes later it was in the center of the deep, dark shadow. At 3:36 a. m., just thirty-six minutes afterward the moon began to sneak out of the umbra.
In another hour, at 4:36 a. m., the moon was out of the eclipse and drifting along in the penumbra. At 5:38 a. m. the moon was entirely out of the eclipse. the next one will be 11:09 p. m., Monday, May 23, 1910.
