How to see Sunday’s lunar eclipse (if the weather cooperates)
Jan 20, 2019, 8:50 AM | Updated: 7:30 pm
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Update: Sadly, Seattle and beyond has too many clouds to get a whole showing of the eclipse Sunday night. Here’s a gallery from other vantage points around the world.
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On Sunday, Jan. 20, a total lunar eclipse will be visible across the country, and, weather permitting, in Seattle as well.
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The eclipse will start to become visible at 7:30 p.m. across the city. It will become a total lunar eclipse at 8:40 p.m., with totality lasting roughly an hour. The whole thing winds to a close to 11 p.m.
A total lunar eclipse is known popularly as a blood moon, where the sun, Earth, and moon are position in a line. The Earth blocks the sunlight from coming through, but the sun casts the planet’s shadow onto the moon, producing the red hue you see during the eclipse.
The weather forecast for Seattle on Sunday calls for overcast weather throughout the day, so all we can do for now is hope for a brief respite come the later hours of the night.
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