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Lunar Eclipse is tonight

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Edit: Liberally Lean has a picture.
Pictures from Toronto.

Meet me in the pasture to watch this eclipse while the coyotes serenade.

54 minutes after midnight PDT the moon enters earth’s shadow.

At first, there’s little change. The outskirts of Earth’s shadow are as pale as the Moon itself; an onlooker might not even realize anything is happening. But as the Moon penetrates deeper, a startling metamorphosis occurs. Around 2:52 am PDT (0952 UT), the color of the Moon changes from moondust-gray to sunset-red. This is totality, and it lasts for 90 minutes.

Click to enlarge this viewing map.

Area specific view time chart:

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Comments

  2. TXsharon says

    Dude! It’s worth it! I have to get up earlier than you. I’m going to slip a little Bailey’s in my morning coffee and enjoy the wonder. It will refresh me and give me firm resolve to fight these assholes.

    Get you ass out of bed and then tell me what you saw.

  3. Lu Cifer says

    Oh alright…hell, if I have the same insomnia I did last night, I won’t get to sleep until 5:30 ANYWAYS!!!!!!!!

  4. Lu Cifer says

    Dumb question, should have mentioned it before, oh well, but ain’t it dumb how there’s no official name for the moon, or the sun for that matter?! Makes referring to stuff if you’re a scientist all the easier don’t it?!

  5. TXsharon says

    It was beautiful! Did you see it. It’s 6:00 a.m. and I just came in.

    The Greeks called the sun Helios. The Egyptians had a different sun god called Ra.

    It is interesting that the sun, moon and even earth have no names.