The document summarizes the last lunar eclipse of 2011 that occurred on December 10th. It provided details about the eclipse timings for locations in China, Sri Lanka, Utah, Pakistan, and others. It also included two poems about lunar eclipses. It noted there will be no total lunar eclipses in 2012 and 2013, but the next ones will be on April 15th and October 8th, 2014.
14. For some observers in the western U.S., the
eclipse provided the seemingly impossible
opportunity to catch the sunrise and the
moonset simultaneously.
美国西部出现日出巧遇全食月落奇观。
18. Thomas Hardy
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.
How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry
With the torn troubled form I know as thine,
That profile, placid as a brow divine,
With continents of moil and misery?
And can immense Mortality but throw
So small a shade, and Heaven's high human
scheme
Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies?
Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show,
Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,
Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?