Lunar Eclipse 5/26

[RPM 26579]

The full moon on Wednesday, May 26, will be the first total lunar eclipse since January 2019, according to EarthSky. It will take the moon just under three hours to cross through the Earth's shadow, but the actual lunar eclipse will last for about 15 minutes.

 

Duration:2 hours, 40 minutes, 6 seconds

Duration of totality:14 minutes, 28 seconds

Penumbral begins:May 26 at 3:47:39 am

Partial begins:May 26 at 4:44:58 am

Full begins:May 26 at 6:11:26 am

Maximum:May 26 at 6:18:42 am

Full ends:May 26 at 6:25:54 am

Moonset:May 26 at 6:27:45 am

[CycleTex87 3007]

I watched it. 

[CycleTex87 3007]

RPM, thanks for putting up the times. I know about the eclipse but hadn’t paid attention to the details. It worked out that I was able to get a nice look out here in deep west Texas. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1992]

Dammit. We had a low cloud bank that obscured it here.