Accordning to NASA's Andrea Jones, Tuesday November 8th, very early in the day, beginning at 4:09 AM Eastern, "teh moon will begin entering into Earth's deep shadow". "Then at 5:17 AM Eastern the moon will pass into the darkest part of the shadow and turn a "brilliant coppery red color " until around 6:45 AM when you should begin to see the Earth's shadow take out a portion of the opposite side shaded than what was visable on Earth at the beginning of the event. Anyone awake in the United States will have a front-row seat as the sun, the Earth and the moon line up, causing the moon to pass through Earth’s shadow in the last total lunar eclipse until 2025.
“To me, the most significant thing about a lunar eclipse is that it gives you a sense of three-dimensional geometry that you rarely get in space — one orb passing through the shadow of another,” said Bruce Betts, the chief scientist at the Planetary Society.
Observers on the West Coast will get the best view. At 12:02 a.m. Pacific time, but again the total phase of the eclipse won’t begin until 2:16 a.m on the West Coast. That phase is called totality, when the moon enters the darkest part of Earth’s shadow and shines a deep blood-red hue. Totality will last for roughly 90 minutes until 3:41 a.m., and by 5:56 a.m. the moon will have returned to its well-known silvery hue.
Who's ready to give up some sleep tonight to watch?