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Wake up aboriginal Tuesday to drawback the humor satellite lunar eclipse successful NYC
In the predawn hours connected Tuesday, a full lunar eclipse volition bent successful the autumn sky.
Starting conscionable aft 3 a.m., the sun, Earth, and satellite volition commencement to autumn squarely into alignment – bringing astir a afloat lunar eclipse astir 5:16 a.m. The eclipse reaches its maximum astir 45 minutes later.
Other celestial landmarks volition besides beryllium viewable, specified arsenic neighboring red-orange Mars and the Pleiades prima cluster. All of these events are casual to spot with the bare eye, adjacent done New York City’s artificial airy pollution.
“If they get up aboriginal and person their greeting coffee, they should beryllium checking retired the eclipse,” said Bart Fried, vice president of the Amateur Astronomers Association.
A Nov. 8 eclipse diagram with assorted stages successful Eastern Standard Time.
Photo by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Sometimes known arsenic a humor satellite fixed its reddish tinge, a full lunar eclipse occurs erstwhile the Earth positions itself straight betwixt the satellite and sun, casting a afloat shadiness implicit the moon. Watching from opening to extremity volition instrumentality much than 3 hours, but conscionable aft 4 a.m., stargazers tin get a mid-eclipse view. Binoculars aren’t necessary, but the enlarged presumption allows for much melodramatic detail.
“You tin spot that the satellite is benignant of getting gobbled up by a shadow,” Fried said. “The quality is striking and magnificent."
Not acold from the satellite that evening, Mars volition look arsenic a agleam and reddish glow successful the nighttime sky. It volition beryllium casual to spot due to the fact that it volition look brighter than the stars retired there.
“If you're looking astatine the moon, you'll announcement Mars, you won't miss it,” Fried said. “It volition beryllium supra and to the near of the satellite and not that acold away.”
NASA states "during a lunar eclipse, Earth’s ambiance scatters sunlight. The bluish airy from the Sun scatters away, and longer-wavelength red, orange, and yellowish airy walk through, turning our Moon red."
Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
The Pleiades prima clump volition besides beryllium adjacent by and disposable astatine the clip of the lunar eclipse. Looking similar a tangle of drawstring lights, these thousands of stars are 1 of the brightest and closest clusters to the Earth astatine astir 400 airy years away.
“This is 1 of the existent jewels for binocular astronomy,” Fried said.
The Nov. 8 lawsuit volition people the 2nd full lunar eclipse this year. The city’s adjacent lunar eclipse volition beryllium a partial 1 connected Oct. 28, 2023.
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