Supermoon eclipse coming to a sky near you

The full eclipse of the moon will last more than an hour on Sunday night and be visible in the Toronto area low on the horizon, weather permitting.

This’ll be the fourth total lunar eclipse in two years, the last in this rare tetrad, and the most dramatic.

As the NASA video shows, when the moon becomes full at its closest point to Earth (called “perigee“), it’s called a “supermoon”. But it doesn’t totally shade the moon, some light with longer wavelengths passes through Earth’s atmosphere thanks to refraction and the moon appears reddish.

A lunar eclipse happens when the earth, sun and moon form a straight line. “I remember doing it as a kid”. A Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse will happen.

Stil added binoculars are also flawless for watching a lunar eclipse.

“Throughout human history, lunar eclipses have been viewed with awe and sometimes fear”, NASA said in a statement.

The Met office says: “The full-looking bright moon will ascend over your eastern horizon no matter where you are around the time of sunset on the 27 September. That’s where the clear skies will be this weekend”, he said.

Why does a lunar eclipse make the moon appear red?

The moon’s elliptical orbit goes from apogee, furthest way, to perigee, closest.

If Mother Nature gets in the way of your viewing party, NASA says it will being its live stream at 8 p.m. EST, giving you a front row view of the celestial spectacle.

Totality (when the moon is completely in the Earth’s shadow) arrives at 10:11 p.m. ET for those in the country’s East, or 9:11 p.m. Connecticut for those in the Midwest.

If space is your final frontier, you might want to check out the Goddard Space Flight Center. The light gets refracted by the atmosphere and reflected toward the moon turning it a red color.