I’m giving you time to mark your calendars and get prepared, fellow lunar-tics: There will be an uncommon full lunar eclipse – a Blood Full Moon – visible from the United States on Tuesday, March 3. The next one will be in 2028. It probably will look like this one from a prior year:
The eclipse will be early in the morning and low in the western sky as the moon sets. Those on Eastern Standard Time reportedly will be able to see it in its full, blood red phase at a few minutes before and after 6 a.m. (The reddening/darkening, caused by the scattering of blue light waves, is scheduled to start at about 4:50 a.m.) The full eclipse will be very low in the sky and best seen over the ocean. The image shown here is a composite image from the Leighton Archives.