article_snippet.sent: Those faced with bad weather may not have missed out on much however, with the event being one of the shortest lunar eclipses of the century. '
article_snippet.sent: Some sources indicate it will be around 10 minutes of totality, which will make it the shortest since 1917, but other sources say it will be less than five minutes which makes it the shortest since 1592,' Sydney Observatory astronomer Andrew Smith told the ABC earlier.
article_snippet.sent: Taken in Canberra: the event was predicted to be one of the shortest lunar eclipses of the century .
article_snippet.sent: Sky-gazers in part of the Pacific Rim enjoyed the 'unusually brief' total eclipse of the 'blood moon' .