Total eclipse of the Moon tonight

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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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  2. Alasdair

    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 …

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