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If the equinox solar eclipse missed your city, there's a good chance that the lunar eclipse on April 4 will be coming your way. This page includes a map and an animation of the upcoming eclipse.

Click to find out more about Lunar Eclipses

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If you want to know whether the eclipse will be visible in your area, here is an eclipse calculator with a city lookup. If it is, there will be quite a lot of information about it, including timings.

It does look as though for many people the eclipse will be visible – weather permitting – but at a rather unsociable time of night.

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Space.com has a good infographic showing what causes a lunar eclipse. It explains that a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse come as a pair two weeks apart. So you may realize that the April 4th lunar eclipse is associated with the equinox solar eclipse.

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Lunar eclipses vary in color. The light we see reflected from the Moon is sunlight that's taken an indirect route through our atmosphere. So it isn't surprising that the conditions in the atmosphere determine the color.

Volcanic ash makes for brilliant sunsets like the one in this famous Edvard Munch painting. However it cuts down the light, so lunar eclipses are dark.

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The April 4th total lunar eclipse may not be visible in your neighborhood. But it will be covered live online. One organization that's doing that is Astronomers without Borders.

SLOOH will also be broadcasting the event.

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The Griffith Observatory will be streaming the eclipse live - click here. Sometimes the observatory has open viewing for such events, but this one is pretty much in the middle of the night in Los Angeles, so they'll be closed to the public. But if you live in southern California, it's much easier - and no driving involved! - just to go outside and look up ! And remember totality is only a few minutes.

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Two views of the lunar eclipse of 2015.04.04 taken from Treasure Island, San Francisco by photographer David Yu. You can see the partial eclipse in progress on the left and the total eclipse on the right. Interestingly, nowhere did it seem quite total, and you can see in David's picture that there's still a bit of white on the top of the right hand picture. This was also a feature of other observations in the zone of totality.

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Astronomers without Borders published this poem inspired by the April 2015 lunar eclipse, written by Paul Morgan, Los Angeles, California.

Risen moon, unshadowed from our view,
Toward dawn, glides into darkness.
In uncertain times, a dread omen
Of ending and descent to shadow.

But this day (for us) a full restoration,
An amen, fears pacified, night ending.
As Luna’s emerging bright glow
Is doubled in long & calm reflection.

Morgan also sent in a photograph of the Moon returning from eclipse.

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The April 2015 total eclipse was expected to have a very short totality. But it seems as though it never was quite total. In this picture, taken at "totality", there is still a sliver of sunlight. Other observers reported the same thing. I wasn't in the part of the world where the eclipse was visible, but watched a live broadcast from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. I noticed it and so did the astronomers commenting.


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