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Tonight, stargazers in North and South America will have the opportunity to see a Super-Blood moon partial lunar eclipse. NPR’s Chandelis Duster reports:
Stargazers will be in for another celestial treat Tuesday night as three cosmic events will occur at the same time during the full moon.
After last month brought space enthusiasts a blue supermoon, September’s harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse.
While harvest moons happen each year close to the start of fall and supermoons three to four times a year, all three events taking place at the same time are “quite rare,” astrophysicist Teresa Monsue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center told NPR.
The moon is considered “super” when it is full and its orbit is at the closest point to Earth, according to NASA. When the Earth is positioned between a full moon and the sun, and the moon passes through Earth’s shadow, a lunar eclipse takes place.
How to see the harvest full supermoon and lunar eclipse
The best times to view the event will depend on your location, but the lunar eclipse will peak at 10:44 p.m. ET, according to NASA. All of North and South America will have a chance to see the partial lunar eclipse and harvest supermoon depending on the weather. Europe and Africa will also have an opportunity to see the eclipse.This lunar eclipse will be a partial one, with only the upper portion of the moon being plunged into the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow known as the umbra, Monsue said.
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