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Viewing This Weekend's Lunar Eclipse

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 18 January 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A total lunar eclipse will grace the skies this Sunday, January 20—and it may or may not be red. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:39.0

This weekend, many parts of the world, including North America,

0:42.7

will be treated to a total lunar eclipse.

0:45.5

So here with your viewing guide, how it happens, what to expect,

0:48.8

and when to head outside is Michelle Nichols,

0:51.4

director of public observing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

0:55.1

There is a total eclipse of the moon on Sunday evening, January 20th, 2019.

1:01.4

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through the shadow cast by the Earth into space.

1:07.3

When this happens, sunlight shines onto the Earth and passes through the atmosphere that is all the way around the edge of the earth.

1:14.7

The blue light from the sun is scattered away by our air, leaving the red colors of light.

1:20.0

So many times, a lunar eclipse turns the moon a dark, dusky red, as we are seeing the collective light from sunrises and sunsets around the entire

1:28.4

edge of the earth at once. The moon can appear coppery orange, red, gray, or it may seem to

1:34.4

almost disappear completely during a lunar eclipse. This eclipse will be visible from all of

1:39.4

North and South America, and Hawaii will see it in progress when the moon rises. The main part of the eclipse starts

1:45.7

at 1033 p.m. Eastern, 7.33 p.m. Pacific on Sunday evening, January 20th, when the moon starts to pass

1:54.0

into the darker part of the Earth's shadow. This is the partial phase of the eclipse. Go outside

1:59.6

and face east or southeast and look for the moon in the sky.

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