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ALBAN HERUIN ECLIPSE

I am still confused about exactly when it will appear because the northern hemisphere is one day behind us, so it begins either tonight on the 21st or tomorrow night on Wednesday 22nd during moon rise (after sunset). Earth’s shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk and it will take about an hour for the entire moon to be swallowed - find an unobscured horizon and look to the north-east if you can avoid the cloud cover

As the moon climbs just before 9pm it won't be as bright as usual and depending on the amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere, it might change in appearance from yellowish brown to blood red during the eclipse, like the one pictured. The further east you are in Australia, the more of the eclipse you'll see, the further west, the more it will be finished by the time the moon rises.

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