By SHIORI OGAWA/ Staff Writer
September 8, 2025 at 13:22 JST
The partial eclipse begins as the full moon starts to enter Earth's shadow at 1:27 a.m. on Sept. 8 (top left); the moon with a quarter of its upper part eclipsed at 1:40 a.m. (bottom left); the moon more than halfway eclipsed at 2:05 a.m. (top right); and the full moon turning a reddish-copper color as the total lunar eclipse begins at 2:30 a.m. (bottom right). All images were taken in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. (Hikaru Uchida)
For the first time in nearly three years, a total lunar eclipse was visible across Japan in the early hours of Sept. 8. [Read More]
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