"Blood Moon": Total Lunar Eclipse NOW! Ends at 4:25 a.m. EST
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A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth align so that Earth's shadow falls across the moon's surface. Monday night's lunar eclipse is a total eclipse, which means Earth's shadow will cover the moon completely.
The moon won't be blacked out by our planet's shadow. Instead, it will take on a reddish hue -- anywhere from a bright copper to the brownish red of dried blood.
Perhaps this is why we are seeing the term "blood moon" popping up all over the Internet.
The eclipse is visible from just about the entire continental United States, as well as Central America and parts of South America. If you live on the West Coast, you are especially lucky because you won't even have to stay up too late to see it.
The show gets more interesting at 10:58 p.m.(1:58 a.m EST), when the partial eclipse begins. Continue to look up to see the Earth's shadow move across the moon, covering more and more of its surface as the minutes pass.
By 12:07 a.m.,(3:07 a.m EST) the entirety of the lunar surface will be in Earth's shadow. It will be glowing red, because even though our planet is blocking out direct light from the sun, the light of all the sunsets and sunrises on Earth still make it to the lunar surface.
3 AM my time If I'm still awake and I remember I'll try to look out the window. I remember seeing this happen before years ago, it was a lunar eclipse and I was so confused when the moon looked red/orange.
3 AM my time If I'm still awake and I remember I'll try to look out the window. I remember seeing this happen before years ago, it was a lunar eclipse and I was so confused when the moon looked red/orange.
It's supposed to be happening 3 more times in the next year and a half so you'll be able to see it again. There haven't been 4 of these in that much time since 1967 apparently.