Lunar Eclipse - February 20, 2008

This is the first hours of yesterday's Lunar Eclipse (2/20/08) sped up 400 times from Upstate, NY.

Total Lunar Eclipse - Tomorrow - Feb 20th

Get out your Video Cameras and Cameras - A total lunar eclipse over North America's sky will occur in the evening of February 20th.

Partial Eclipse begins: 8:43 pm EST

Total Eclipse begins: 10:00 pm

Mid Eclipse: 10:26 pm

Total Eclipse ends: 10:52 pm

Partial Eclipse ends: 12:09 am on the 21st Feb

This lunar eclipse will be of a relative short duration of 52 minutes of totality. The eclipsed moon is predicted to be a bright orange - red color with a lighter yellow color edge on the Southern or bottom part of the Moon. The eclipsed moon will be flanked by Saturn on its upper left and the bright star Regulus on its upper right.

The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21).

For those wondering about other time zones and accross the Atlantic Ocean I can't seem to get the chart to paste into this document - please visit the following link:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html