Tonight the waxing crescent will be on the west side of Aries and set at about 10:30 p.m. A couple of nights later, the moon will be at first-quarter phase right next to the Pleiades in Taurus and a week after that will be a very special full moon.

At 1:50 a.m. on March 3, the full moon will begin to enter the umbra of Earth’s shadow to start a lunar eclipse. The moon will be completely in the umbra, getting an orange or red color, between 3:04 and 4:03 a.m. — 59 minutes of totality. The moon exits the umbra at 5:18 a.m.

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