INDIANA – The second total lunar eclipse of 2022 will turn the moon a reddish-copper color on Nov. 8, 2022, though what you’ll see during this safe naked-eye event will depend on your location on the planet.
In the early hours of Tuesday, November 8, 2022, the last “Blood Moon” total lunar eclipse for three years will be visible from North America.
During the event a full Moon – November’s “Beaver Moon” – will enter the center of Earth’s shadow for a whopping 85 minutes, turning an eery dark copper-reddish color as it does so. It’s a celestial event lasting over five hours during which our satellite will drift into, then out of Earth’s shadow in space.
A total lunar eclipse happens as the full moon moves into the deep umbral shadow of the Earth and receives only light first filtered by Earth’s atmosphere.
It will be the third total lunar eclipse in 18 months, the second in 2022, and the last until 2025.
It will be visible from North and South America, the Pacific, Asia, and Australia—and that includes all of North America and all 48 contiguous U.S. states.
Here’s when to be outside where you are though about an hour before and after it will be possible to see the very odd sight of the Moon in a partial eclipse.
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However, if you only want to go outside briefly then this is when to do that (choose “peak totality” if you just want a peak):
- 5:17- 6:42 a.m. EST on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 (peak totality at 5:59 a.m. EST)
- 4:17- 5:42 a.m. CST on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 (peak totality at 4:59 a.m. CST)
- 3:17- 4:42 a.m. MST on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 (peak totality at 3:59 a.m. MST)
- 2:17- 3:42 a.m. PST on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 (peak totality at 2:59 a.m. PST)
- 00:17- 1:42 a.m. HST on Tuesday, 8 November 2022 (peak totality at 00:59 a.m. HST)
