Roy Gal<\/a> from the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy spoke with HPR for a new segment called “Hawai\u02bbi Skies.” He shared the latest on the upcoming eclipse \u2014 and the watch party at Bishop Museum on O\u02bbahu.<\/p>\n “That’s going to be happening on the night of March 2, heading into the morning of March 3, and the total lunar eclipse is when the Earth’s shadow falls on the moon and turns it a kind of beautiful red, coppery, brownish color,” he said. <\/p>\n The moon is over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a lunar eclipse in Sydney, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.<\/p>\n Where should you go to see it?<\/p>\n “Any place outside, out from under a roof, and you have to be somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, like us here in Hawai\u02bbi, because the path of totality goes over the Pacific, and the only other places in the world that will see it are like the West Coast of the U.S., just barely, and maybe Guam. And that’s about it,” Gal told HPR.<\/p>\n The last total lunar eclipse visible from Hawai\u02bbi was on Nov. 8, 2022. Residents will have to wait until Dec. 31, 2028<\/a>, for the next one \u2014 but Hawai\u02bbi will not be quite as well placed.<\/p>\n The institute and Bishop Museum will host a free eclipse viewing party<\/a> at the museum starting at 11 p.m. on March 2. A livestream will also be available on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We’re going to have telescopes, binoculars, astronomers. The Bishop Museum is running their planetarium, and you’ll be able to join us, ask us questions, have a safe place to hang out,” he said. “So come join a bunch of people who love looking at the sky.”<\/p>\n A map shows where the March 3, 2026, lunar eclipse is visible. Contours mark the edge of the visibility region at eclipse contact times.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772274909_981_.jpeg\"\/)
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