Cloudy skies plagued some sky watchers on Sunday as May's?Full Flower Moon?slipped through Earth's shadow in a?total lunar eclipse. In skies above Chile's Atacama desert this telephoto snapshot still captured an awesome spectacle though. Seen through thin high cirrus clouds just before totality began, a last sliver of sunlit crescent glistens like a hazy jewel atop the mostly shadowed lunar disk. This full moon was near perigee, the closest point in?its elliptical orbit. It passed near the center of Earth's?dark umbral shadow?during the 90 minute long total eclipse phase. Faintly suffused with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the umbral shadow itself gave the eclipsed moon a reddened appearance and the very dramatic popular moniker of a?Blood Moon.?

周日，陰云密布的天空困擾著一些天空觀測者，五月的滿月在月全食中穿過地球的陰影。在智利阿塔卡馬沙漠上空，這張長焦照片仍然捕捉到了令人驚嘆的景象。在全食開始之前，透過薄而高的卷云，最后一縷陽光照射下的新月像一顆朦朧的寶石一樣閃耀在陰影籠罩的月盤上。這輪滿月接近近地點(diǎn)，即橢圓軌道上最近的點(diǎn)。在長達(dá)90分鐘的日全食階段，它經(jīng)過地球暗本影中心附近。在被大氣散射的微弱陽光照射下，本影本身給被日食的月亮起了一個(gè)紅色的外觀，并給它起了一個(gè)非常引人注目的通俗綽號"血月"。