Eclipse Tonight

This beautiful Sean come in a year for first time and the people were enjoy it, You can watch the Lunar Eclipse Tonight (well, early tomorrow morning technically) as it will be December 21, which is the Winter Solstice. Sky gazers and Astronomers will be able to see something occur that hasn’t happened in almost 500 years. That being the full moon lunar eclipse occurring on the shortest day of the year, aka the Winter Solstice.

The last time the Moon went into total eclipse on the Winter Solstice was the year 1636. It won’t happen again for another 372 years, according to astronomers. The moon is to move into total eclipse at 3:17 a.m. as the orb moved completely into the Earth’s shadow, blocking the Sun’s light. Now, a lunar eclipse doesn’t look like a solar eclipse.

Don’t expect a sharply defined perfect circle to completely blot out the face of the moon. Instead, when the Earth cuts in front of the path between the sun and the Moon, the moon takes on variety of red tones. Here’s how NASA explains the rouging: Passaic County’s observatory on Garret Mountain in Woodland Park is not going to be open for the event, according to a caretaker, Phil Cuono, who said officials did not expect enough of a crowd to show up at 3 a.m.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves completely within the Earth’s shadow. The fact that this total eclipse occurs on the Winter’s Solistice — the day when the Earth is closest to the Sun, located some 93 million miles away —  makes this special even for astronomers and astrologers.