Photo by Wes Franchuk
Photo by Andrew Mehlhoff
Photo by Tristan Magnus
Borderland residents turned their eyes skyward on the night of Aug. 27 as a deep partial lunar eclipse transformed the full moon. The eclipse occurred as Earth passed between the sun and moon, casting its shadow across 96.3% of the moon’s surface.
Although it was not a total eclipse, so much of the moon entered Earth’s shadow that it took on the reddish-orange appearance commonly associated with a …