“Strawberry Moon” Lunar Eclipse
Tonight’s “Strawberry Moon” is undergoing an eclipse today. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first, unfortunately it’s not visible from North America this time, and in fact it will have already happened by the time you read this.
So why are we even bringing it up? Lunar eclipses are much more common than solar eclipses, since a lunar eclipse is visible from everywhere on the night side of the Earth, unlike solar eclipses which have a narrow path of totality which you must be inside to see the full eclipse.
There are two more lunar eclipses in 2020, we’ll talk more about them as they get closer. A lunar eclipse happens when the Moon crosses through the Earth’s cone-shaped shadow and appears to darken and turn red. The diagram attached shows what this would look like from above Earth.
The Moon crossing through Earth’s shadow creates a lunar eclipse
Tonight is just a great opportunity to check out another spectacular Full Moon rising near the Eastern horizon at the same time the Sun sets in the West.
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