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Total lunar eclipse on April 15

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eclipseIt will mean being up in the middle of night with clear skies overhead.

But on April 15, if you do get up, and the skies are clear, you can see a total lunar eclipse.

It will be an easily-seen event. You don’t need special glasses to view the moon is the shadow of the earth, when it turns a really neat brick red. Everyone in North and South America will be able to see it.

The only hitch is the time. The moon will start getting dark around at 1 a.m.. EDT. The total eclipse will last from  3:07 a.m. until 4:25 a.m. EDT, and then the moon will slowly emerge from the shadow until daybreak.

You could jet to California, when the moon will go into ecplise at a more reasonable hour.

Or else, you could jet down to Antarctica on April 29. There will be a total solar eclipse there, with the whole coronal ring of fire thing.  Oh, to be rich and interested in the nighttime sky.


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