{"id":409760,"date":"2026-08-18T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:04:09","slug":"houston-blood-moon-how-to-see-aug-27-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409760\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston blood moon: How to see Aug. 27 lunar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moon will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/space\/article\/eclipse-definitions-total-partial-18758013.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">take a reddish hue<\/a> on Aug. 27 as it moves through the darkest part of the Earth\u2019s shadow, casting the world\u2019s sunsets onto its surface.<\/p>\n<p>A lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon, occurs when the Earth passes between the sun and the moon. It won\u2019t be a total eclipse. But at 94% eclipsed,\u00a0Houstonians will want to step outside before going to bed, said Rice University astronomer Pat Hartigan. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one is definitely worth it,\u201d\u00a0Hartigan said in an email. \u201cIt is the spectacle of the summer for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moon will enter the dark part of the Earth&#8217;s shadow at 9:34\u00a0p.m. and will reach its maximum eclipse at 11:13 p.m. The show ends at 12:52 a.m., Hartigan said.<\/p>\n<p>All but a sliver of the moon will turn red as sunlight filters through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and onto the moon. Its position in the sky \u2013 \u201cwell above the horizon,\u201d\u00a0Hartigan said \u2013 and timing will make it easy to spot from Houston, as long as the weather cooperates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most striking part of a total lunar eclipse is often how the moon appears just before it fully enters the darkest part of the Earth&#8217;s shadow, when the part illuminated by the sun has shrunk to a narrow yellow crescent while the eclipsed part glows a deep reddish color,\u201d\u00a0Hartigan said. \u00a0\u201cWe will be able to experience this beautiful sight with a deep partial eclipse like this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houstonians&#8217; last opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse was earlier this year on the morning of March 3. The next total lunar eclipse visible from Houston will be on June 25, 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moon will take a reddish hue on Aug. 27 as it moves through the darkest part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-409760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}