JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse Tuesday \u2014 and there won\u2019t be another until late 2028.<\/p>\n
A partial lunar eclipse will begin at 4:50 a.m., becoming a total lunar eclipse at 6:04 a.m., then peaking at 6:33 a.m.<\/p>\n
The moon will be setting below the horizon in the western sky at 6:52 AM. <\/p>\n
Clouds\/fog and the low position of the moon will make it difficult to see for many across our area.<\/p>\n
WATCH THE FORECAST<\/a> | DOWNLOAD THE APPS<\/a><\/p>\n Solar and lunar eclipses happen due to a precise alignment of the sun, moon and Earth. There are between four and seven a year, according to NASA.<\/p>\n The eclipses tend to follow each other, taking advantage of the sweet spot in the celestial bodies\u2019 orbits. Tuesday\u2019s total eclipse of the moon comes two weeks after a \u2018ring of fire\u2019 solar eclipse that dazzled people and penguins in Antarctica.<\/p>\n During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth is between the sun and full moon, casting a shadow that covers the moon. The so-called blood moon looks red because of stray bits of sunlight filtering through Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n The show unfolds over several hours, with totality lasting about an hour.<\/p>\n Compared to a solar eclipse, \u201cthe lunar eclipse is a little more of a relaxed pace,\u201d said Catherine Miller at Middlebury College\u2019s Mittelman Observatory.<\/p>\n For those in the path, there\u2019s no need for any special equipment to observe \u2014 just a clear, cloudless view of the sky.<\/p>\n Use a forecasting app or any online celestial calendar to look up the exact timing for your area. Venture outside a few times to see Earth\u2019s shadow darken the moon, eventually revealing the reddish-orange orb.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be out there the whole time to see the shadows moving,\u201d said astronomer Bennett Maruca with the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a partial lunar eclipse on the docket for August, visible across the Americas, Europe, Africa and west Asia.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse Tuesday \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16777,83326,27926,83327,696,3609,83328,703,27929,79253,83329,44358,116,118,117,713,83018,29314,30235,14353,716,83330,554,857,1769,83331,39610,20948,515,28110,1740],"class_list":{"0":"post-176247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-3d","9":"tag-astronomy","10":"tag-atmosphere","11":"tag-bloodmoon","12":"tag-blue","13":"tag-clouds","14":"tag-cosmos","15":"tag-dark","16":"tag-earth","17":"tag-eclipse","18":"tag-galaxy","19":"tag-globe","20":"tag-jacksonville","21":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","22":"tag-jacksonville-news","23":"tag-light","24":"tag-lunar","25":"tag-map","26":"tag-moon","27":"tag-nature","28":"tag-night","29":"tag-planet","30":"tag-science","31":"tag-sky","32":"tag-space","33":"tag-sphere","34":"tag-star","35":"tag-stars","36":"tag-sun","37":"tag-universe","38":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}