A spectacular total lunar eclipse took place last night.
In Guangdong, the price of a clear sky is indeed the cold. It had been very humid and cloudy here since Monday; it started getting cold the day before yesterday, and I thought something good was coming. Sure enough, last night brought a rare clear sky, and everyone witnessed a wonderful total lunar eclipse—the whole class, even the whole school, turned out, skipping evening self-study sessions!
I love such magnificent astronomical phenomena, and I love this atmosphere even more: everyone coming out to witness the grand event! During this process, holding small binoculars or monoculars, facing the moonlight and the stars, slowly watching the moon chip away and darken—what a beautiful feeling, like a fairyland. A classmate nicknamed “Rabbit” even said they wanted to “fly to the moon to find Chang’e” at the peak of the eclipse, haha.
Although it was very cold, everyone’s enthusiasm was high (regrettably, I forgot to take a few photos). We talked about the next lunar and solar eclipses, and we made a date to watch the annular solar eclipse and the transit of Venus together on May 21 and June 6—just before the College Entrance Examination (Gaokao). Wow! That’s awesome!
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Commemorating this moment.
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