TOKYO: Sky-gazers in parts of the Pacific Rim observed an “unusually brief” total eclipse of the Moon on Saturday night, with the rare red-tinged satellite glimpsed from Japan’s far north to the Hollywood Hills.
The eclipse -- which occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up so that the Moon passes through the Earth’s shadow -- was seen in northern Japan, parts of Australia, and parts of western North America.
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