A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had a local photographer out of bed early today.
Bhargav Pandya captured this morning's partial lunar eclipse. It was the longest one in nearly 600 years.
Pandya is a hobby photographer and snapped this image just before 4 a.m. today (Nov. 19).
A lunar eclipse is when the sun, earth and full moon are almost perfectly lined up in space.
"A partial lunar eclipse occurs when only a portion of the moon passes through the earth’s darkest shadow. During this type of eclipse, a part of the moon will darken to a dim orange or red as it moves through the earth’s shadow," according to NASA.
