The last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will begin at 4:09 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Here are details on how to view it and why lunar eclipses are so fascinating
dds are you don’t have any plans for 4:09 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Assuming your calendar is indeed clear, it might be worth setting your alarm for that time, because it’s then that the last total lunar eclipse until 2025 will begin—and the show should be a dazzler.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting a deep shadow across the lunar surface. In theory, a lunar eclipse should happen monthly, since the moon and the sun are on opposite sides of the Earth once every 27 days during the lunar passage around the planet. But the moon’s orbit is inclined 5 degrees relative to the Earth’s equator, meaning that most of the time, the Earth’s shadow passes above or below the moon.
It is only about once every year and a half that the three bodies line up perfectly to make an eclipse happen. That year and a half frequency is just an average, however. Tomorrow’s total eclipse will actually be the second one of 2022—the last oneWhere and When To Watch the Eclipse, the eclipse will be visible throughout North America, Central America, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands.
The eclipse will unfold slowly, with the 4:09 a.m. time marking the moment the Earth’s shadow will take its first bite out of the moon. That darkness will advance slowly until, at 5:16 a.m. E.T., it will reach totality, which will last until 6:42 a.m. The moon will then sail on, with more and more of its face slowly emerging from the Earth’s shadow.The moon will not completely vanish from the sky the way the disk of the sun does during a solar eclipse.
“The Sun will turn to darkness, and the Moon to blood before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes,” reads the Bible in Joel 2:31. The Toba people, who inhabited South America in the 16th century,
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