See Moon Turning Coppery Red during Total Lunar Eclipse on Early Wednesday Morning

Second and final total lunar eclipse will occur on early Wednesday morning. A treat for early risers and stargazers, the eclipse will start at 4.16 am. The moon will take a coppery hue just before sunrise on the East Coast.

The moon will look red because its surface will receive just that light that will come from the atmosphere that illuminates with the light of every sunset and sunrise across the world.

As per slooh. com, "The eclipse will only be visible in its entirety from parts of eastern Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Asia, most of Japan, the Hawaiian Islands and the western part of North America".

As said above, starting at 4.16 am, the moon will enter into earth's shadow and will initiate the slow process of changing its color into bright and beautiful coppery red.

Though the process will start early in the morning, it would not be very visible to the naked eyes. It would be visible once it reaches a total eclipse at 6.55 am. By 9.34 am, it would be completely out of earth's shadow.

The Delmarva Stargazers, a locally-based amateur astronomers' club, explained about the total lunar eclipse. It is an event where the sun, moon and earth are lined up with earth in the middle.

When such an activity takes place, then earth blocks the sunlight to reach the moon and it reflects as white or almost white color that we generally see in the night sky.

This lunar eclipse is the second one in a tetrad. The first one took place in the early morning hours of April 15, but owing to poor weather conditions, it was difficult to view. The second one is taking place on Wednesday and the remaining two are set to take place on April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.


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