You will be able to see a rare phenomenon when the moon shines in night skies on Thursday and Friday.
A partial lunar eclipse, but really a nearly total lunar eclipse, is set to dazzle sky watchers and night owls early Friday morning. The longest partial lunar eclipse in over 500 years will take place during the event.
There is a blood moon and a Beaver moon on Thursday and Friday.
The phenomenon will play out in night skies over North America, large parts of northern South America, northeastern Asia and the eastern side of Australia.
The moon will be in alignment with the sun. It takes six hours and two minutes for the moon to be obscured by the Earth's shadow, and then it will reveal normal moonlight.
The extended show will give you plenty of time to view the eclipse. At 1:02 a.m. The penumbra is the outer part of Earth's shadow. It will gradually dim as the shadow creeps across its surface for about an hour before it becomes a partial lunar eclipse at 2:19 a.m.
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The moon will be in a rusty amber hue when it becomes visible at 3:45 a.m. This shade will cover almost all of the moon's face in the Earth's shadow at the peak of the eclipse. By 4:20 a.m., the shadow will cross enough of the moon's surface that the colors are no longer visible, and the eclipse will fade as the moon slowly falls out of alignment. The spectacle ends at 7 a.m.
It is simple: just look up. There is no need for telescopes or binoculars. You should be able to see the moon in an eclipse if you can see it from where you are. Zeroing in on it with one of those tools will allow you to see some of the features of the near side of the moon.
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Eclipse watchers were unable to view the lunar eclipse on Santa Monica Beach.
During the eclipse, the moon will appear in deep colors of red and orange, blushing the surface of the near side that faces our planet in a sheen of colored sunlight.
If the skies are clear, it's worth getting up for, even early in the morning, said an astronomer who manages telescopes at Harvard University's Astronomy Lab.
The colors are a result of the same phenomenon that causes sunsets on Earth to be pink, red and magenta. Light waves from the sun appear in shades of blue when they beam directly through the atmosphere during the day, and reddish when they shoot through thicker swaths of the atmosphere at sunset.
The moon gets a white glow in the night sky when the sun reflects from its surface. On Friday, the sun will beam through the atmosphere and project sunset colors on the lunar surface.
There was a total lunar eclipse in May that was also a super moon. They usually last for a long time. The second slowest eclipse of the century happened in the summer of 2018, lasting one hour and 43 minutes.
The eclipse will last three and a half hours and is a rare alignment of the planets and the moon. The distance from Earth to the moon varies as it circles the planet.
The apparent size of the objects and how long the shadow takes to cross are affected by the slight distance difference. The moon will be in one of its farthest distances from the Earth during Friday's eclipse.
The solar system can be seen in real time during the eclipse. You won't be able to see it in person if you're on the other side of the world. The observatory in Arizona will have a live stream of the event.
People just take a moment to look up and relish in the beauty of nature when there is an eclipse or a meteor shower. These small moments remind you there is more going on.
