Overview
- NASA and national observatories list the phases in UTC: penumbral start 15:28, partial 16:27, totality 17:31–18:53, greatest 18:11, penumbral end 20:55, with the full event lasting about five and a half hours.
- The eclipse is observable across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica, while Mexico and most of the Americas cannot see it directly; far western North America may catch only late stages at moonrise.
- In Spain, most regions will see the Moon rise already in totality’s final minutes, whereas far‑western Galicia and the Canary Islands will miss the total phase and see only the partial eclipse at moonrise, with the local maximum at about 20:11 CEST.
- The September full moon—known as the Harvest or Corn Moon—coincides with this total eclipse, and the Moon’s red hue results from sunlight refracted through Earth’s atmosphere reaching the lunar surface.
- This is the year’s second and final total lunar eclipse, and September’s sky calendar also features a partial solar eclipse on September 21 and the equinox on September 22, according to INAOE and other agencies.