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You’ll want to look to the sky tonight in NYC—a full lunar eclipse is set to take over the sky and stun New Yorkers with a red hue.
As the first full lunar eclipse since 2022, it’ll begin tonight, March 13, just before midnight, when the Earth passes between the sun and moon.
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When is the lunar eclipse?
The eclipse will begin just before midnight at 11:57pm, but totality won’t hit till 3am. Even cooler, the moon will turn blood-red between 2:26am and 3:31am, space.com says. The eclipse will last a total of six hours and three minutes, according to TimeandDate.com.
Where can you watch the eclipse?
It’ll be viewable across North America and most of South America, but to see it from NYC would be really special.
“It's one of the prettiest things that you can see in the sky because not only does the eclipse show you that wonderful shadow but a lunar eclipse is the one that will give you all the color instead of just black and white,” Kathy Quinn Vaccari, a member of the executive committee of the Amateur Astronomers, told Gothamist.
Just look up where there’s a clear view of the moon.
If you cannot watch the eclipse in person, you can watch all the eclipse action live on Space.com!
Do you need glasses to see the eclipse?
Luckily, you won’t need any special equipment to see the eclipse—just clear weather conditions. The National Weather Service expects it to be mostly cloudy tonight in Manhattan, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a break in the clouds.
The next full lunar eclipse won’t be until March 2026, so maybe this one’s worth staying up for.