1. Total Lunar Eclipse Wednesday 20 February 2008 The Franklin Institute Science Museum and The Rittenhouse Astronomical Society Present the Moon to the Public Begins: 8:43pm EST Totality: 10:10-10:51pm EST Ends: 12:09 am EST Feb. 21

2. Lunar Luminaries Left to Right Derrick Pitts – F.I. Chief Astronomer Dr. Ken Kremer – NASA “Ambassador to the Solar System Alan Daroff – R.A.S. Vice President Ted Williams – R.A.S. Secretary

3. Eclipses in the Solar System Earth, Mars, and Saturn Eclipse Pictures, Solar and Lunar

4. How it Works

5. Chinese Dragons to Scare off Demons The kids love them!

6. Derrick Pitts Explains the Eclipse The Public had a good view from the Bloom Observatory on the roof

7. Early Totality The Moon is Red in Earth’s Shadow, about 10pm EST Saturn is to the Left, Regulus Above

8. Even Darth Vader Showed up! That’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station! No wait, it is a Moon.

10. Leaving Totality The limb of the moon shines white

11. Close up Through the 25cm Zeiss Refractor

12. Out of the Umbra The Moon returns to white, but is still partly in shadow

13. The last Shadow The eclipse ends after midnight

14. The Small Print With thanks to: –The Franklin (the Franklin Institute Science Museum) www.FI.edu –The Rittenhouse Astronomical Society www.RittenhouseAstronomicalSociety.org –NASA – Eclipse Diagram –Philadelphia Suns Dragon Dancers –Dalex – Photos Copyright 2008