Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)
When:
January 20, 2019 @ 11:41 pm – January 21, 2019 @ 1:51 am
2019-01-20T23:41:00-05:00
2019-01-21T01:51:00-05:00
Where:
up in the sky
Cost:
Free
Sunday night, January 20th, Asheville will experience a total lunar eclipse – the first in our area since September 2015.
Asheville’s total eclipse portion of the event, as the Moon enters Earth’s full shadow, or “umbra,” begins Sunday evening at 11:41 p.m. Its greatest intensity, when the lunar disk glows in the deepest shades of red and orange, occurs just after midnight, at 12:12 a.m.
The total eclipse ends around 12:43 a.m. Monday morning, though the subtle partial eclipse phase will be visible until 1:51 a.m.
We encourage you to stay up late Sunday and enjoy this “Blood Moon!”
For more information about this exciting lunar event, follow this link: http://www.astroasheville.org/…/Blood-Moon-Print-Version.pdf