#Total lunar eclipse 2021 how to#
That it’s worth losing sleep over this eclipse, here’s how to prepare: Have your days been running together since mid-March 2020? Waking up to see a lunar eclipse will create a sharp new memory. And stepping outside your own home to look at the Moon is way easier than traveling to Arizona.ħ. But nothing beats the experience of the real thing. I suppose you could also just look at photos of the Grand Canyon rather than looking at it in person. Sure, you could just look at the pretty photos that’ll be online afterward, rather than waking up early. Earth’s shadow on the Moon will be curved.Ħ. See evidence that you live on a round planet. See an animation here for what it’ll look like from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.ĥ. Or stay out for hours and watch its progress. Pick the best (well, least inconvenient) time during the eclipse, and pop outside. It takes a while for the Moon to pass through Earth’s shadow. Note that the main eclipse action is preceded and followed by a penumbral eclipse, when the Moon passes through Earth’s fainter, outer shadow-but the penumbral phases are more difficult, and less impressive, to observe.Ĥ. If you wait until closer to the end, 5:47 a.m., you’re living a little more dangerously, especially if you’ve got obstacles blocking your view to the west, because the Moon will set not long after.
and still reasonably well placed in the west by maximum eclipse at 4:03 a.m. For North Carolina viewers, the Moon will be high in the western sky when the eclipse starts at 2:18 a.m. This 2021 eclipse isn’t total, but it gets awfully close, at 97%.ģ. During the January 2019 lunar eclipse, at totality it looked like an eerie dark red hole had opened in the sky. Expect the Moon to turn some variation on red, with its exact appearance depending on the dust and clouds in Earth’s atmosphere. Because Earth’s atmosphere filters and refracts sunlight onto the Moon, the full Moon will still be visible when it’s in Earth’s shadow.
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