On December 10, the Last Lunar Eclipse Until 2014

New submitter althanas has this entry, snipped from NASA's Science News, for next weekend's social calendar (if you're lucky enough to live in the viewing range): "The action begins around 4:45 am Pacific Standard Time [on December 10th] when the red shadow of Earth first falls across the lunar disk. By 6:05 am Pacific Time, the Moon will be fully engulfed in red light. This event — the last total lunar eclipse until 2014 — is visible from the Pacific side of North America, across the entire Pacific Ocean to Asia and Eastern Europe. For people in the western United States the eclipse is deepest just before local dawn. Not only will the Moon be beautifully red, it will also be inflated by the Moon illusion."

Re:Can we start using GMT/UTC in posts please?

[Kangburra]

To be fair TFA states Pacific Time, so it is NASA you need to be complaining to.

Some info for the astonoy geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

You can use this nasa javascript calculator to see when you will be able to see the eclipse (or any other one). The interface is clunky and 1997ish but hey.. that's your government at work!

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JLEX/JLEX-NA.html

Re:Technically...

[voidphoenix]

No, the Moon doesn't always pass through the Earth's shadow on every orbit. It's (the Moon's) orbital plane is tilted with respect to the Earth's.