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A few times a year, Mother Nature goes out of her way to put on a spectacular display to offer us all some perspective about our relatively small place in the cosmos. One such occurrence is set to happen soon: the longest partial lunar eclipse of the 21st century will rise in the wee hours of Friday morning. And you, along with most of North America, should be able to catch sight of it if you stay up late enough.
"The eclipse will be visible from New York City—obviously it will be better viewed away from the city lights and light pollution, but even in the city it should be visible," said John Homenuk, co-founder of New York Metro Weather. "The eclipse begins at 1:02 a.m. and will reach maximum eclipse at 4:02 a.m."
According to NASA, it will last three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, making it the longest one this century (the longest total eclipse, in comparison, lasted one hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds in 2018). Space.com notes that this makes it the longest partial eclipse in 580 years.
Early Friday morning, most of North America was treated to a rare astronomical sighting: the longest partial lunar eclipse of the last 580 years. It was actually a combination Frost Moon-Beaver Moon-Partial Lunar Eclipse with a reddish-brown Blood Moon glow to it, if we're being unscientifcally exact.
If you couldn't get ahold of a telescope from your local library, or you couldn't quite bring yourself to stay up or wake up early enough to see the moon at its peak eclipse state around 4 a.m., you can check out a few photos and videos of the moon hovering above our city.
I saw it about 5 am and it looked like a crescent moon. The next day the moon was full or nearly full so I saw the eclipse without realizing it was an eclipse.
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