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WATCH: Super Flower Blood Moon appears in Iowa overnight

Storms cleared in time for Iowans to view the partial lunar eclipse Wednesday morning.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Sky-gazers had to get up early Wednesday morning to catch the first partial lunar eclipse over central Iowa in years.

The partial eclipse began at 4:44 am. At 5:46 a.m., the eclipse reached its greatest magnitude when 84% of the moon moved into the Earth's shadow.

The moon then set shortly after at 5:51 a.m.

In a lunar eclipse, the moon and sun are on opposite sides of Earth. Only part of the moon moves into Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse, while the entire moon moves into the shadow in a total lunar eclipse.

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The umbra is the darkest part of Earth's shadow while the penumbra is lighter portion on the edges of the shadow

The western United States to eastern Asia got the full spectacle of a total lunar eclipse, the first in the world in over two years.

Wednesday morning's moon has been dubbed the "Super Flower Blood Moon" for a few reasons:

Super: This is a supermoon as this will be the closest the moon gets to Earth in 2021

Flower: The May full moon is always known as the "Flower Moon"

Blood: Lunar eclipses turn the moon a reddish hue (Although blood red is a bit of an exaggeration)

The next partial lunar eclipse over Iowa will occur early on November 19 later this year.

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