Rare blood moon to light up Greater Victoria early Tuesday morning<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 pm Monday, March 2, 2026<\/p>\n
Those up early enough on Tuesday morning will have a chance to spot a celestial rarity in the skies above Greater Victoria.<\/p>\n
After midnight, a total lunar eclipse will lend the moon a dark-red appearance.<\/p>\n
The phenomenon, also called a blood moon, occurs when the Earth passes directly between the sun and moon, casting a massive shadow across the lunar surface.<\/p>\n
NASA says the moon reddens at these times because \u201cthe light that does reach the lunar surface is filtered through a thick slice of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s as if all of the world\u2019s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the moon,\u201d adds the space agency.<\/p>\n
While lunar eclipses occur between four and seven times per year, blood moons fill the skies on average every 2.5 years.<\/p>\n
NASA says the moon will enter the outer part of Earth\u2019s shadow at 12:44 a.m. While its light will begin to dim then, that reddish effect marking the moon\u2019s valleys and craters will be subtle. A partial eclipse will begin at 1:50 a.m. as the moon moves further into the Earth\u2019s shadow. The total eclipse starts at 3:04 a.m. By then, the moon will be tinted red. This phase ends at 4:02 a.m.<\/p>\n
As Earth\u2019s shadow dims the lunar surface, constellations may be easier to spot than they usually are during a full moon.<\/p>\n
Looking at a blood moon doesn\u2019t require any special equipment.<\/p>\n
The next total lunar eclipse won\u2019t happen again until 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare blood moon to light up Greater Victoria early Tuesday morning Published 5:00 pm Monday, March 2, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-510678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}