There’s a total lunar eclipse tonight, visible in its entirety throughout the U.S. Here’s a complete timetable of eclipse events. Below are the key times, in Mountain Standard Time. (Add 2 hours for Eastern Time, add 1 for Central, or subtract 1 for Pacific.)
11:33 PM: Partial eclipse starts (first “bite” of the dark umbral shadow appears)
12:41 AM: Totality starts (Moon completely covered by Earth’s umbral shadow)
1:18 AM: Mid-totality
1:53 AM: Totality ends
3:01 AM: Partial eclipse ends
Much has been made of this being a “winter solstice eclipse,” but that’s only true in the sense that they occur on the same calendar day — not simultaneously. The solstice isn’t until 4:28 PM tomorrow, more than 13 hours after the eclipse ends.
P.S. Having said that… could a Winter Solstice / Eclipse Day also be the day when UConn’s 88-game winning streak finally ends? Hmm… yeah, probably not.
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Total eclipses of the moon are good. Total eclipses of the heart are better.
From the chilly West Coast of Scotland (Benderloch, specifically), the Moon showed nice and full (with very little cloud cover) until about 05:30 GMT – at which time (while up and awake to deal with a work-related problem), I got to watch the cloud cover move in until the Moon was no longer specifically detectable … light levels went from bright enough to read newsprint to just bright enough to safely walk across a field or through trees over about a 45 minute period … by about an hour later, light levels had dropped significantly further – which I attribute to the effects of what would presumably have been a partial eclipse …
So – I have to take it on faith that it really happened, and wasn’t brought to us by Sandy Underpants’ Moon Landing chums …
I watched it yesterday,I and my friends group together and had little bit research too on the day..we are waiting for the next eclipse,because we need to clear some doubts from that next eclipse..
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