Friday, 2 March 2007

Lunar eclipse tomorrow night

A total eclipse of the moon is visible from virtually every continent on Earth on the night of March 3rd / 4th. The table below gives times as UT (universal time), which is the same as GMT or UK winter time. I'll include the conversion to EST and PST timings.

Partial Eclipse Begins: 21:30:22 UT / 4.30pm EST / 1.30 pm PST
Total Eclipse Begins: 22:44:13 UT / 5.44pm EST / 2.44pm PST
Greatest Eclipse: 23:20:56 UT / 6.20pm EST / 3.20pm PST
Total Eclipse Ends: 23:57:37 UT / 6.57pm EST / 3.57pm PST
Partial Eclipse Ends: 01:11:28 UT / 8.11pm EST / 5.11pm PST

Further details from the NASA website.

North America
EST = UT - 5 hours
CST = UT - 6 hours
MST = UT - 7 hours
PST = UT - 8 hours

Obviously, if the sun is still up, the eclipse will not be visible, and I have serious doubts whether the western states in the USA will be seeing much of it.

Let's hope for some clear skies!

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3 comments:

  1. Let's hope for some clear skies!

    You took the words right out of my mouth as I was reading the last part of this entry Guido.... Jeanie

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  2. Our skies are mostly sunny right now, but there are still some clouds; I'm not sure how it will look tonight.  And I'm not sure it will be dark enough during the full eclipse, but we'll check it out anyway.  Thanks for letting us know.
    Lori
    http://journals.aol.com/helmswondermom/DustyPages

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  3. It'll be afternoon for us. Impossible to see darn it!
    Pam

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