Rare Lunar Exclipse on the cards after 34 months!!

The attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward for a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21,where the coppery globe of our moon will hang completely submerged in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by the Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed sky onlookers will have a view of one of nature's most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon.

Eclipses of the moon can usually be observed from one's own backyard. The passage of the moon through the Earth's shadow is equally visible from all places within the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon.

The total phase of the upcoming event will be visible across all of North and South America, as well as the northern and western part of Europe, and a small part of northeast Asia, including Korea and much of Japan. Totality will also be visible in its entirety from the North Island of New Zealand and Hawaii — a potential viewing audience of about 1.5 billion people.  This will be the first opportunity from any place on earth to see the moon undergo a total eclipse in 34 months.