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Here's how it's unfolding:
It started at 3:16 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, behind the moon began upsetting into Earth's shadow. For the adjacent hour and 45 minutes, that shadow will touch across the moon and engulf it at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Time.
The sum eclipse will unaccompanied last four minutes and 43 seconds, and NASA says that makes it the shortest one of the century.
While people west of the Mississippi River will have the best view, at least a partial eclipse will be visible across the nation. But sunrise will put off the produce an effect as regards the East Coast.
Parts of South America, India, China and Russia furthermore will be able to see the eclipse, but it won't be visible in Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Africa or the Middle East.
A lunar eclipse happens gone the sun, Earth and moon form a straight lineage in song, when the Earth smack in the center.
The sun shines re the Earth and creates a shadow. As the moon moves deeper into that shadow, it appears to tilt dark and may even appear to be a reddish color. Why red? Because Earth's appearance is filtering out most of the blue light. Some people have nicknamed the effect the "blood moon."
NASA says lunar eclipses typically happen at least twice a year, but this eclipse is the third in a series of four in a squabble, known as a "tetrad." The first was going as regards for April 15, 2014. The second was in September 2014, the later-door is Saturday and there will be one more, in defense to September 28.
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