December's lunar eclipse graced early morning skies over the
Rocky Mountains in Colorado, USA. There, this wintry scene finds
the Moon in a cold blue twilight sky near the western horizon,
above the snowy North American Continental Divide. About 22
minutes before the sunrise, the reddened lunar disk is almost
completely immersed in Earth's dark shadow. This dramatic Rocky
Mountain moon set during the eclipse total phase. But all parts
of the geocentric celestial event were seen from Pacific
regions, Asia, and Australia, including the entire 51 minutes of
totality, and parts of the final eclipse of 2011 shared in skies
around much of Roger N. Clark