Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night

[Kurt]

SPACE.com -- Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night

For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature's most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon.

 

[futurebeachbum]

I wish I could be in Ireland for it. Magic in the air as solstice is marked by lunar eclipse

Star-gazers in Northern Ireland will be ideally placed to watch a heavenly phenomenon on Tuesday night. For the skies will play host to a total lunar eclipse - an event which is set to turn the sky a deep red.

 

[seagrover]

Do we know what time?

 

[gbdreams]

Science Daily (Total lunar eclipse and winter solstice coincide on Dec. 21) says:

"From beginning to end, the eclipse will last about three hours and twenty-eight minutes. For observers on the east coast of the U.S. the eclipse lasts from 1:33am EST through 5:01 a.m. EST. [or 12:33 - 4:01 CST in SoWal]... Totality, the time when Earth's shadow completely covers the moon, will last a lengthy 72 minutes."

 

[Franny]

Science Daily (Total lunar eclipse and winter solstice coincide on Dec. 21) says:

"From beginning to end, the eclipse will last about three hours and twenty-eight minutes. For observers on the east coast of the U.S. the eclipse lasts from 1:33am EST through 5:01 a.m. EST. [or 12:33 - 4:01 CST in SoWal]... Totality, the time when Earth's shadow completely covers the moon, will last a lengthy 72 minutes."

Why do they always occur after my bedtime???

 

[DuneAHH]

Why do they always occur after my bedtime???

 

[bogieman]

Go outside and look up!

 

[John R]

just short of total right now

 

[kipahoumai]

Just beautiful!

 

[GoodWitch58]

Amazing...