Bulter Hosts Lunar Eclipse Viewing
(INDIANAPOLIS) - The public is invited to view Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse at Butler University’s Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium.
Weather- permitting, the observatory will be open from 7:30pm until the eclipse ends shortly after midnight. Visitors will be welcome to look through the observatory telescope as well as through smaller telescopes that will be placed on the lawn and binoculars that the observatory will provide.
The director of the observatory, Brian Murphy, says viewing this eclipse should be better than the one in august because the moon will be high in the sky. The one in August was low and occurred at daybreak.
Murphy says as the partial phase of the eclipse begins, observers will see a little notch taken out of the moon and it will get larger until around 10pm when the moon will be completely in the earth's shadow.
Observatory staff will be on hand to point out other objects in the sky, including Mars, Saturn and the Orion Nebula.
The next lunar eclipse will occur in December 2010.
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