For about 15 minutes, as the moon moves fully into Earth s shadow, the moon will appear to turn red.
The eclipse began as the moon edged into the Earth s outer shadow, called the penumbra. The full eclipse was due to take place between 11:11 p.m. and 11:25 p.m.
“It s our turn, said John Rowe, an educator at the Stardome Observatory & Planetarium in Auckland, New Zealand. “We are in a prime position for it. The moon is really high in the sky for us, and everyone should be able to see it.”
Rowe likes to imagine it as if he s standing on the moon. The Earth would come across and block out the sun. The reddish light around the edges would be the sunsets and sunrises happening at that time on Earth, projected onto the moon s surface. Pretty cool, he reckons.
The eclipse began as the moon edged into the Earth s outer shadow, called the penumbra. The full eclipse took place between 11:11 p.m. and 11:25 p.m. local time (7:11 a.m. ET and 7:25 a.m. ET).
New Zealand, Australia and some other places in the Pacific and East Asia will see the show before midnight, while night owls in Hawaii and the western part of North America will be able to see it in the early morning hours.
Sky gazers along the U.S. East Coast will be out of luck because the moon will be setting and the sun rising. Europe, Africa and western Asia will miss everything.