What Time Does The Blood Moon Start

What time is the Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse?

Editor's notation: The full phase of the Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse has concluded. You can read our wrap story on the beginning total lunar eclipse of 2022 .

A Claret Moon total lunar eclipse will occur this weekend, and here's when to spotter information technology.

The sun, moon and World volition align Sunday nighttime for a total lunar eclipse on May 15, which occurs when the World moves into place between the sun and the full moon. Equally a upshot, the Globe casts a giant shadow across the lunar surface, giving the moon a striking reddish hue — which is why lunar eclipses are also referred to as blood moons.

Sunday'due south full moon is as well considered a supermoon, meaning it looks bigger and brighter than usual because information technology's at the closest indicate to Earth in its orbit, as well known as perigee.

The total lunar eclipse will exist visible from portions of the Americas, Antarctica, Europe, Africa and the e Pacific. Meanwhile, a penumbral eclipse, where the outer part of World'south shadow blankets the moon, volition be visible in New Zealand, eastern Europe and the Eye East.

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NASA chart of Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse stages and times. — This NASA graphic shows the major stages of the Super Flower Claret Moon of May 2022 and their times. (Epitome credit: NASA)

Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse

The total lunar eclipse of Jan. 20-21, 2019, captured by astrophotographers Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre from the suburbs of Boston. From left to right: The start of totality, at 11:41 p.m. EST on Jan. 20; the middle of totality, at 12:12 a.m. on Jan. 21; and the end of totality at 12:44 a.m. — (Paradigm credit: Courtesy of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre)

If you take a photo of the 2021 full lunar eclipse let usa know! You can send images and comments to spacephotos@space.com.

Depending on your location, a partial lunar eclipse begins May 15 at 10:28 p.m. EDT (0228 GMT on May sixteen). The Claret Moon will attain its peak at 12:11 a.m. EDT (0411 GMT) on May sixteen before the lunar eclipse ends at 1:55 a.m. EDT (0555 GMT). The penumbral moon phase of the eclipse will begin about an hour earlier and end most an hour later on the partial eclipse, according to TimeandDate.com.

Viewers lucky enough to be in the path of the lunar eclipse will have to get outside early to witness the event. There will also be some livestreams available on YouTube from NASA Science Alive, Slooh and TimeandDate.com.

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Visibility map of the May 15 to 16, 2022 lunar eclipse. — A visibility map for the May 15, 2022 Super Bloom Blood Moon lunar eclipse. (Image credit: NASA'southward Scientific Visualization Studio)

NASA'southward livestream starts at ix:32 p.m. on May 15 (0132 GMT May 16). It volition include a discussion on eclipses, moon scientific discipline and the agency'south moon-landing Artemis program. Slooh, an astronomy learning website, will begin their webcast on May 15 at nine:xxx p.m. EDT (May 16 0130 GMT). TimeandDate plans to broadcast the unabridged lunar eclipse, weather permitting, starting at x p.m. EDT May fifteen (0200 GMT May 16).

This will be the first of two lunar eclipses in 2022. The next 1 will have place on Nov. 8, 2022 and will be visible at to the lowest degree partially from Asia, Commonwealth of australia, Northward America, parts of northern and eastern Europe, the Arctic and most of S America, co-ordinate to TimeandDate.com.

Editor's Note: If you snap an amazing lunar eclipse photo and would like to share it with Space.com'southward readers, send your photograph(southward), comments, and your proper name and location to spacephotos@space.com.

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