LUNAR ECLIPSE TONIGHT DENVER COLORADO FULL
If you're looking up at the sky, you probably won't notice a full shadow, which is when you'll begin to notice the Earth's shadow merging into the moon until about 12:18 a.m. "The partial eclipse event will unfold mostly during the wee hours of Friday, with the maximum eclipse occurring around 2 a.m., before completely wrapping up just after 5 a.m.", Keller said. tonight, this partial lunar eclipse will begin to turn the moon from its normal bright white color to a blood-red as it passes into the Earth's shadow this occurs whenever there's a lunar eclipse - sunlight refracts through the Earth's atmosphere and then projects onto the moon giving it a more reddish, or bloody, looking color. Where + When To See The EclipseĬU Boulder's John Keller says that at around 11 p.m. In this particular eclipse, up to 99.1% of the Moon’s disk will be within Earth’s umbra, according to NASA. In a total lunar eclipse, the entire Moon falls within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra. What Is A Lunar Eclipse?Ī lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind Earth's shadow in the case of the lunar eclipse many will see between tonight and tomorrow morning, the Moon will pass into the shadow of the Earth, creating a partial lunar eclipse so deep that many professionals are considering this eclipse almost total.
According to John Keller, the University of Colorado's (CU Boulder) Director of the Fiske Planetarium, the eclipse will begin around 11 p.m.
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