{"id":873507,"date":"2026-08-27T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873507\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:12:13","slug":"clouds-hoped-to-clear-over-nanaimo-for-lunar-eclipse-view-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873507\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds hoped to clear over Nanaimo for lunar eclipse view | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b2697b0c-2c7b-47b6-8364-1806b240a1c6.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hoped cloud cover won&#8217;t entirely block a lunar eclipse from being seen in Nanaimo on Thursday evening. (Image Credit: Dreamstime)<\/p>\n<p>By Alex Rawnsley<\/p>\n<p>deep partial eclipse<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 27, 2026 | 5:33 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 Local skywatchers are hoping the clouds part just in time for a rare lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>A deep partial lunar eclipse is due Thursday, Aug. 27, during the late evening hours, with upwards of 96 per cent of the moon\u2019s surface covered by Earth\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Island University astronomy professor Dr. Gregory Arkos said the best viewing will come after dinner as the moon comes into view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a complete, total lunar eclipse, but you should be able to see some of that red moon that we kind of see during a total lunar eclipse. This will be happening right at moonrise, so around 8 p.m. our time, if you look in the east and watch the moon come up, it should be already deep into eclipse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hoped cloud cover won&#8217;t entirely block a lunar eclipse from being seen in Nanaimo on Thursday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,66,306,82],"class_list":["post-873507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-science","tag-space","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873507","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=873507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}