The second full moon of January (a Blue Moon, by some definitions) will be totally eclipsed by the shadow of the Earth. The Pacific Ocean is turned toward the moon when this takes place; the event will occur more or less during the middle of the night in that region.
To the west of the Pacific Ocean, for central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and most of Australia, a fine view of this moon show will be had in the evening sky. Heading farther west, into western Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, the eclipse will already be underway as the moon rises. To the east of the Pacific Ocean, Alaska and northwestern Canada see the eclipse from start to finish (as does Hawaii) between midnight and dawn, while for the rest of North and Central America, moonset will intervene before the event is through.
The farther east you go, the closer the start of the eclipse will coincide with moonset. Along the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard, for instance, the moon will have only just begun to enter the Earth’s umbra when the satellite will disappear from view below the west-northwest horizon. The duration of the total phase is 76 minutes with the moon tracking through the southern part of the Earth’s shadow. So, during totality, the moon’s lower limb (its edge) will appear brightest, its upper limb darkest.
The eclipse is also one day after another January supermoon, so some outlets — including NASA — have grouped these three events together into a super Blue Moon eclipse.
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