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How to Observe the Supermoon Lunar Eclipse by wakeangel2001

SCIENCE TIME! It's September 27th, meaning tonight is the supermoon lunar eclipse! The Supermoon is what we call the full moon when it is at the closest point in its orbit around the Earth, making it unusually large and bright, but right now we're going to be treated to a much rarer event, an eclipse that will occur during such a full moon, which hasn't happened since 1982 and won't be happening again until 2033. So here is how to observe this rare celestial event, in eastern standard time since I live in New York, so be sure to compensate for your time zone. The eclipse will begin around 9:07 PM, when the moon will begin entering our planet's shadow, 64 minutes later at 10:11 it'll enter totality, where it'll turn a coppery red color and remain that way for 72 minutes until 11:23, where it will start to leave the shadow and look like a full moon again. I'm going to try and record the eclipse for my youtube channel but I'm sure everyone will want to see it in person so follow my instructions and you'll be fine.

How to Observe the Supermoon Lunar Eclipse

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