The StarrySkies Lunar Eclipse Pages

A total lunar eclipse will soon darken the full moon for most of North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

To our ancestors, there were no two more important objects in the sky than the Sun and Moon. They represented the rhythms of life itself. They feared lunar eclipses, thinking it might even be the end of the world. Embedded in the fear was also fascination and wonder. Today we know why eclipses occur, but understanding did not take away the wonder and beauty of this shadowplay of Earth and Moon. Join us in an exploration of our nearest neighbor in space, and the only other world that man has walked upon.

The Moon rises about five p.m. EST when it is the penumbra and total eclipse begins at 8:06 p.m. EST. Totality ends at 8:31 PM EST and the partial eclipse ends at 10:45 PM. EST" To obtain the time and location for your area, use the form below.

The StarrySkies Lunar Eclipse Pages
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Why we don't have a Lunar Eclipse every month
Eclipse Facts
Rating a lunar eclipse - the Danjon Scale
Photographing a Lunar Eclipse
Myths and Lore about Lunar Eclipses
The Lunar Eclipse that Saved Christopher Columbus
Moon Facts
Moonstats - Lunar Vital Statistics
Moonwatching
Why we see only one side of the Moon - librations
Lunar Phases
Moon Tales: The Night the Moon fell - 1939 Springfield, Missouri
Moon Tales: When the Moon saved the Sun - New York 1835
Moon Trees - Have you got one in Your Town?
Multimedia Moon - Images and Video clips of the Moon
3D Moon - Catch the Moon in 3D (note: you will need 3D glasses)

To obtain the time and location of the eclipse in your area of the U.S., use the following form.

Cities or Towns in the U.S.

Eclipse: November 8, 2003

State or Territory:

Place Name:

The place name you enter above must be a city or town in the U.S. The place's location will be retrieved from a file with over 22,000 places listed. Either upper- or lower-case letters or a combination can be used. Spell out place name prefixes, as in "East Orange", "Fort Lauderdale", "Mount Vernon", etc. The only exception is "St.", which is entered as an abbreviation with a period, as in "St. Louis".

This form is processed by the U.S. Naval Observatory's Lunar Eclipse Computer.

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