The “blood moon” as seen from Korea town, west of Los Angeles, early on Tuesday. The next total eclipse of the moon comes on Oct. 8.
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There were “whistles, cheers and howls” early Tuesday on the grounds of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles as the moon turned red during a total lunar eclipse.

As the Los Angeles Times adds, “telescopes dotting the lawn pointed upward and southward, as the moon hovered above the observatory” and visitors who had packed the grassy