Residents in the Peace Region and throughout Alberta will potentially be in the viewing sites of a partial lunar eclipse on Wednesday morning.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth’s shadow and can only occur when the sun and moon are exactly or very closely aligned with earth, and only on the night of a full moon.
“What we are going to see is around 3:44 a.m. (mountain time), the moon will slowly dip into the earth’s dark shadow called the Umbra, for the next hour or so until about 5:11 a.m.” explained Frank Florian, the Director of Planetarium and Space Sciences at the TELUS World of Science in Edmonton.