{"id":120482,"date":"2025-09-07T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120482\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:18:09","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-to-be-visible-in-much-of-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120482\/","title":{"rendered":"Total lunar eclipse \u2018blood moon\u2019 to be visible in much of Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Blood-Moon.-Photo-Image-by-Kerry-Barbour-from-Pixabay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\"  \/>Photo Image by Kerry Barbour from Pixabay<\/p>\n<p>A total lunar eclipse \u201cblood moon\u201d should be visible for much of Wales on Sunday night as clear skies are forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The moon is set to turn a deep, dark red \u2013 sometimes called a \u201cblood moon\u201d \u2013 as the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow across the lunar surface, for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Met Office, the Moon will take on a reddish hue because it will be illuminated by light that has passed through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and has been bent back towards the Moon by refraction, scattering blue light and allowing red wavelengths to reach the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Where skies are clear, the eclipse will be visible at around 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftfestival.co.uk\/cymru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CRAFTFestivalWALES-Nation.Cymru-728px-x-90px-WELSH.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clear spells<\/p>\n<p>Much of Wales will see clear spells into the night, so should have good viewing conditions, the Met Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The Met Office recommends people keen to see the phenomenon plan to be somewhere with as clear a view of the eastern horizon as possible, ready for the lunar eclipse to peak in at 7.33pm.<\/p>\n<p>In built-up areas, this might mean going to a hill or viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The eclipse will be visible to the naked eye and unlike solar eclipses is safe to view directly as the Moon\u2019s reflected light is not as bright.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said the Moon will rise over the UK just in time for people to see the tail end of the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.wales\/visit\/things-to-do\/exhibitions\/no-welsh-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4776_NLW_No-Welsh-Art-Digital-Advert_Mar-2025_Land_V2_EN-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right direction<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Moon is pretty unmistakable in the sky, so the most important thing is to face the right direction,\u201d Dr Bloomer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be rising towards the east, and head southwards over the course of the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it rises, the most important thing will be whatever is low on your horizon. A flat landscape, or an elevated position makes for the best visibility \u2013 literally so there aren\u2019t things like buildings, trees, or other things in the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lunar eclipse like this is a great opportunity for observing with kids too. It isn\u2019t too late for us in the UK, the target is nice and easy and minute by minute you will notice changes (good for short attention spans).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Observatory Greenwich said the next partial lunar eclipse will not be until August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                                Support our Nation today<\/p>\n<p>For the price of a cup of coffee a month you can help us create an<br \/>\n                                    independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, by<br \/>\n                                        the people of Wales.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Image by Kerry Barbour from Pixabay A total lunar eclipse \u201cblood moon\u201d should be visible for much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-120482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}