Super Moon Arrives Sunday Night

Sunday night is the long awaited eclipse of the super moon, which last occurred 30 years ago. The event can be seen with the naked eye!

The USA, along with much of the world, will see the combination of a bigger brighter moon, called a super moon, and a lunar eclipse which will give the moon a reddish copper-like hue.

The lunar eclipse will begin around 8:11pm and reach it's peak around 10:11pm. The event should end at midnight with the total lunar eclipse lasting about an hour and 12 minutes.

This is part of what scientist call the 'Lunar Tetrad' part of four lunar eclipses referred to as 'blood moons'. It will be visible in North and South America, Europe, Africa, parts of West Asia, and the Eastern Pacific.

The weather at the time of this blog was calling for partly cloudy skies Sunday night.

The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center will be open for viewing on Sunday, more info, here.

I am a huge sky watcher and if the clouds don't roil in on this will be a spectacular sight!