A rare blood moon will light up the sky on Thursday night into the early hours of Friday during a lunar eclipse. CBC’s Britnei Bilhete has the details on how you can catch it.
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00:00Late Thursday into Friday there's a chance to see the moon go from this to
00:05this. A blood moon caused by a rare total lunar eclipse. This York University
00:10astronomer calls the stellar moment special. Well lunar eclipses are actually
00:15one of my favorite events. They're just so easy to see. You don't need a
00:18telescope so you won't need this. You don't need binoculars. You can go out
00:23with your friends and just have a look and it's a chance for everyone to share
00:28in a bit of celestial dynamics, a bit of astronomy, to learn something about the
00:33solar system or just watch the Earth's shadow go across the moon. First the moon
00:39enters the shadowy outer face called the penumbra then moves into the umbra, the
00:43darkest area. At totality the Sun, Earth, Moon are perfectly aligned turning the
00:48moon red. The blood moon is the reddish orange color that we see that appears on
00:54the moon during totality and this occurs for the same reason that our
00:58sunsets are red on Earth. The sunlight passes through our atmosphere, scatters
01:04away all those shorter wavelengths of blue light and only the longer
01:08wavelengths of red light reach the moon and cause the moon to glow in this in
01:15this sort of orangish red color. Gorgeous lunar eclipses like these are a little
01:21more rare experts say. It not only depends on the path of the moon but also
01:25where you live. This go-around some of the best views will be in North America.
01:29The next total lunar eclipse will happen in a year in March 2026 but then we
01:36won't see another one until 2029. Eclipse chaser Dr. Ralph Tu will be
01:41viewing the celestial event from his home observatory and taking advantage of
01:44winning best seat even though you'll have to stay up late for it. You've got
01:49to be up between 2.30 and 3.30 roughly to catch the real show. Anything before
01:54that and after that it's not going to be very interesting. Oh yeah I'll be up and
02:00you know the you know for any of the kids who are out on school break you
02:04know this is a perfect chance for you to stay up all night because that's what
02:08it's going to be. A fun-filled night that means more than astronomy to some. I
02:12think what's really special about these sorts of events is it connects us with
02:17so many different people from all different parts of the planet that we're
02:20realizing that we're all seeing the same sky we're all seeing the same event
02:25collectively together and I think that is a really special unifying feeling. The
02:32eclipse officially starts at 1157 on Thursday and weather permitting you'll
02:36be able to see totality around 2.30 a.m. Friday. That's when you'll have about an
02:41hour to look up at the sky and marvel at the blood moon in its best form.
02:45Brittany Blatt, CBC News, Toronto.