{"id":7583,"date":"2025-09-07T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:01:05","slug":"blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-to-grace-new-zealand-skies-overnight-and-early-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/7583\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Moon: Lunar eclipse to grace New Zealand skies overnight and early Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Whatu Stardome astronomer Josh Aoraki told the Herald Monday\u2019s eclipse will begin at 3.30am, as the moon begins to enter Earth\u2019s penumbra – or outer shadow.<\/p>\n

By 5.30am, it will be a total eclipse, he said. The moon will be completely shadowed by Earth, with a coppery red hue visible. <\/p>\n

\" A lunar eclipse montage. Photo \/ Greg Stevens<\/p>\n

To get the ultimate experience of the beauty of a lunar eclipse, Aoraki recommends an elevated spot with a clear, unobstructed view of the West.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weather is looking good for tomorrow too,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

It will be the second time this year New Zealand has seen a blood moon – the first was in March. Before that, the most recent blood moon was in 2022. <\/p>\n

Partial solar eclipse<\/p>\n

In two weeks, we\u2019ll be in for another captivating planetary moment: a rare and partial solar eclipse.<\/p>\n

Aoraki told the Herald Kiwis haven\u2019t seen a solar eclipse \u201cof this magnitude\u201d since 2012, when about 85% of the sun was blocked. <\/p>\n

On September 22, the eclipse will already be in progress when the sun rises just after 6am, and it will appear as a crescent when it rises. <\/p>\n

\u201cBe sure to have a clear, unobstructed view of the eastern horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 6.55am, the solar eclipse will reach its maximum point, with the moon blocking out around 60% of the sun\u2019s disc in Auckland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bottom of the South Island<\/a> will see about 70% of its sun blocked. <\/p>\n

The solar eclipse will end just after 8am that day.<\/p>\n

Unlike lunar eclipses, solar eclipses do require eye protection as the sun will \u201cat no point\u201d be fully blocked by the moon. Solar viewing glasses will be needed for anyone wishing to safely view it. <\/p>\n

Malisha Kumar is a multimedia journalist based in Hamilton. She joined the Waikato Herald in 2023 after working for Radio 1XX in Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Whatu Stardome astronomer Josh Aoraki told the Herald Monday\u2019s eclipse will begin at 3.30am, as the moon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,4250,2245,5676,9881,5912,296,807,9876,9878,8036,1304,117,111,139,69,6507,6744,8205,147,9877,9879,9882,61,701,3764,9880,4524,3807,1533,102,80],"class_list":["post-7583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-and","tag-blood","tag-early","tag-eclipse","tag-facing","tag-grace","tag-into","tag-kiwis","tag-lunar","tag-monday","tag-moon","tag-morning","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-place","tag-rare","tag-science","tag-skies","tag-somewhere","tag-spectacular","tag-to","tag-tomorrow","tag-transition","tag-view","tag-want","tag-west","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}