Monday, December 20, 2010

TO TELL THE KIDS: FULL ECLIPSE TONIGHT

L.A. Times: "A total eclipse of the moon will be visible throughout all of North and Central America from 2:41 a.m. EST until 3:53 a.m. Tuesday ...

Weather permitting, observers will begin seeing the moon enter the Earth's inner shadow, or umbra, at 1:33 a.m. which appears as a red-brown shadow creeping across the bright moon. ...
The sky will get darker as the shadow progresses across the moon, and more stars will appear in the sky as sunlight reflected from the moon fades.

Totality will last a generous 72 minutes, then the process will reverse, with the moon completely emerging from the umbra at 5:01 a.m. ... The most recent total eclipse of the moon was on the night of Feb. 20-21, 2008."

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