ONE total lunar eclipse will be visible from parts of North America 2.-3. March, but not everyone is guaranteed to see it; daylight or clouds can obscure your view, depending on where you are, and the moon’s low position on the horizon during the eclipse can also cause problems.
Fortunately, no matter where you are on Earth, you can still catch the “blood moon” online to enjoy the 58 minutes of totality of the moon, when moon moving all the way into the earth’s dark umbral shadow and turns red.
The total lunar eclipse on the 2nd-3rd. March — from the point Earth’s outer shadow creeps over the moon to the moment it leaves — lasts about 5.5 hours, from 3:44 a.m. to 9:23 a.m. EST Tuesday (March 3), according to Time and date. With webcasts running on your phone, tablet and/or laptop, you can scroll back and forth between images of the eclipse in different regions of North America, as well as in Australia, New Zealand and East Asia.
Access to webcasts will be especially important for skywatchers in Europe, Africa and most of Asia – where the eclipse will not be visible at all – or in the eastern time zones of North America. From the Midwest to the west coast of North America, the totally eclipsed moon will be visible above the western horizon. But from most of the East Coast, the moon will begin to set just as it reaches fullness.
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Time and date
The Timeanddate.com team is one of the most trusted live streamers of eclipses of all kinds. live feeds from all over the world. As always, presenters Graham Jones and Anne Buckle will host. This time they are joined by Preethi Krishnamoorthy and Avinash Surendran aka Star Knightswhich will join from Hawaii, with other feeds from the Perth Observatory in Australia and the site’s mobile observatory near Los Angeles.
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Griffith Observatory
Set to live stream from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles from 12:47 PM to 6:25 AM PST on March 3, weather permitting. You can learn more about the broadcast on it website. Griffith’s view is likely to be among the finest in North America, perfectly equipped to capture the entire event from start to finish, as anywhere in California. (Note, this is an online-only event, with no on-site public viewing.)
The virtual telescope project
Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, who founded The virtual telescope projectwill curate a broadcast of the live footage from Astroimages streaming live views of the total lunar eclipse across the globe, starting at 3:30 a.m. EST. North American coverage will include live streams from Florida, Michigan, New Mexico and Montreal, while Australian locations will have views from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
|
Time zone |
Total eclipse |
Header cell – column 2 |
|---|---|---|
|
EST |
6:04–7:02 |
(Moon waning will occur during this time.) |
|
CST |
5:04–6:02 |
Row 1 – Cell 2 |
|
MST |
4:04–5:02 |
Row 2 – Cell 2 |
|
PST |
3:04-4:02 |
Row 3 – Cell 2 |
|
AXT |
02:04-3:02 |
Row 4 – Cell 2 |
|
HST |
1:04-2:02 |
Row 5 – Cell 2 |
