Total Lunar Eclipse 15 June 2011
Observed in Vienna, Austria, ca 9:00 pm - 11:30 pm, ca 20°C
Data for Vienna,
Austria (Central European Sommer Time, CEST, UTC + 2):
Moon rise ca 8:55 pm; totality 9:22 - 11:03 pm (mid 10:12 pm, duration 1:41 h)
Article in Wikipedia: "This was a relatively
rare central lunar eclipse, in which the
center
point of Earth's shadow passes across the Moon."
ca 10:50 pm ca 11:00
pm ca 11:15 pm
Digital
camera, f = 4.5 - 108 mm, aperture 8.0 (C) Kurt Varmuza, Vienna, Austria 
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A few minutes after totality: Moon above the roof of "Hofburg Palace" seen from "Heldenplatz"
This
picture has been published on two sites of the website of ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk,
Austrian Broadcasting): Link1 Link2
and in the daily Austrian newspaper KURIER in issue 17
June 2011: PDF
Full view of the "New Castle Wing" (finished 1913) of "Hofburg Palace"
from "Heldenplatz" ("Heroes
Square") with the partly shadowed moon above
Some illuminated historical buildings in the neighborhood
of the observation place (Vienna, Austria)
Left: Parliament (1883) with statue "Pallas Athene"
(Greek Godness of Wisdom).
Right: Dome of "Museum of Art History" (1891).
Left: Main entrance of "Burgtheater"
(1888), "Imperial Court
Theatre".
Right: "Theseus Temple" in "Volksgarten" (1823), a somewhat reduced copy of a temple
in Athens, Greece.
"Town Hall" (1883) in neo-gothic
style.
Reports and data of total solar eclipses:
1999
Austria 2001
Zambia 2006
Libya
Partial solar eclipse:
2011 Vienna
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