Overview
- The deep partial eclipse is happening Thursday night into early Friday, reaching its peak around 04:12–04:13 UTC when roughly 96% of the lunar disk sits in Earth’s umbra.
- Most of North and South America had full views of the event while parts of western Europe and western Africa saw it low on the horizon or as the Moon set.
- The darked portion may look red or copper because sunlight filtered through Earth’s atmosphere bends into the shadow and longer red wavelengths dominate depending on aerosols and dust.
- Observers do not need eye protection to watch the eclipse and those clouded out could follow free livestreams from observatories and platforms such as Timeanddate, Griffith Observatory, and the Virtual Telescope Project.
- A G2 geomagnetic storm watch for the night raises the chance of northern lights in clear skies across Canada and some northern U.S. areas, and this eclipse is the deepest partial lunar event visible until late 2028.