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The solar eclipse today may have already meant bad tidings for grounded Australian airport shut-ins

Today, all across the Eastern (and parts of the Western) Hemisphere, sky gazers will be treated to a rare and beautiful sight, a total lunar eclipse.

Wednesday's rare total lunar eclipse promises to be 100 minutes long. The full event can be seen from from the eastern half of Africa, the Middle East, central Asia and western Australia.

Moon will appear changing color from brilliant silver to between bright orange and blood red during the eclipse, NASA said in a statement. Find out why.

Everybody is gearing up for a date with a moon that will turn scarlet in the shadow of Earth. You are lucky if you manage to be in Africa, Central Asia, South America, Europe, Australia or Philippines because you will be the ones to witness total lunar eclipse.

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, which is one of the longest eclipses of the moon and will last just over 100 minutes, the duration of which rivals only three other eclipses in the last 100 years.

The Puyehue volcano, which lies on the border between Chile and Argentina, continued to spew ash over the Andes and Patagonia regions of South America on Tuesday, grounding flights across the Southern Hemisphere.

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A total lunar eclipse on Wednesday is expected to last 100 minutes, according to NASA. An eclipse of that length is extremely rare because it takes a precise alignment of the earth and the moon to block the sunlight for that long.

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The volcanic ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue volcano left thousands of travelers stranded and hundreds of flights backlogged over the past two days in Australia and New Zealand as strong winds carried the ash more than halfway across the world.

This coming Wednesday, most regions of the earth are expected to experience the longest total lunar eclipse since July 2000.

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, June 15, which is one of the longest eclipses of the moon and will last just over 100 minutes.

As a cloud of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile prompted cancellation of some domestic and international flights from New Zealand and Australia on Monday, authorities said flights could remain affected all week.