DeAnna Hartel captured the  Aug. 28 12:12 a.m. lunar eclipse.

In the early morning hours of August 28, the moon passed into the shadow of Earth, creating a deep partial eclipse.

At the moment of greatest eclipse, 4:13 a.m. Universal Time, 96.3% of the Moon's disk was within Earth's umbra, the central part of the shadow where the Sun was completely blocked by Earth, said NASA, at its Scientific Visualization Studio.

"This eclipse is a member of Saros 138,", said NASA. "The eclipses in a given saros series are separated by 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours. The previous eclipse in this saros series occurred on August 16, 2008, and the next takes place on September 7, 2044."

It was visible in the Americas (except Alaska and northwestern Canada), western Europe and western Africa.

In Midcoast Maine, the skies were moderately clear at midnight, with light wisps of clouds streaming quickly overhead, on a sweet August night.

"The penumbra is the part of Earth's shadow where the Sun is only partially covered by Earth. The effect of the penumbra on the Moon's appearance is subtle," said NASA. "But after the partial phase begins, at 2:34 UTC (10:34 p.m. Eastern on the night of the 27th), the umbra's dramatic effect is easily visible as it takes an increasingly large bite out of the disk of the full Moon. Less than an hour later, the part of the Moon still in sunlight will be small enough for observers' eyes to adapt to darkness and perceive the coppery color of the part of the Moon within the umbra. The visualizations here mimic this dark adaptation by increasing the apparent photographic exposure around the time of greatest eclipse.