Tonight is a total lunar eclipse for eastern Australia. If you can see the Moon, you can see the eclipse. Best seen by eyes and not any special equipment :-)
The eclipse starts before moonrise (at about 8pm) but there won’t be that much to see until about an hour later, when the core of the Earths shadow starts to take a bite out of Oceanus Procellarum.
Totality begins just after 10pm and the Moon should go a nice shade of red as the combined sunlight from all sunsets and sunrises on the planet faintly illuminates it.
The actual shade of red and how dark it gets depends on what cloud cover is like along the edge of the planet where the sunlight travels through our atmosphere.
About an hour later, around 11pm, totality will be over. The bright stars you’ll see around the eclipsed Moon are all part of the constellation Leo. #astrodon #astronomy #space
