{"id":494006,"date":"2026-02-27T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:15:12","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-2026-where-to-watch-the-moon-turn-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494006\/","title":{"rendered":"Total lunar eclipse 2026: Where to watch the moon turn red"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A blood-red moon<\/a> will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse \u2014 and there won\u2019t be another until late 2028.<\/p>\n

The spectacle will be visible Tuesday morning from North America, Central America and the western part of South America. Australia and eastern Asia can catch it Tuesday night. Partial stages of the eclipse with small bites taken out of the moon<\/a> can be seen from Central Asia and much of South America. Africa and Europe will be shut out.<\/p>\n

Solar and lunar eclipses happen<\/a> 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<\/a> 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

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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

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1926,6626,1246,40331,1076,793,4265,6625,79,18598,193,1306,795,965],"class_list":["post-494006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-africa","tag-astronomy","tag-australia","tag-eclipses","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-north-america","tag-planets","tag-science","tag-south-america","tag-space","tag-trending-news","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}