{"id":824295,"date":"2026-08-24T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824295\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:38:12","slug":"ask-the-meteorologist-what-to-know-about-thursday-nights-partial-lunar-eclipse-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824295\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Meteorologist: What to know about Thursday night’s partial lunar eclipse :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

A partial lunar eclipse will take place late Thursday night into early Friday morning, August 27 to August 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

At its peak, 96% of the moon’s surface will go into the earth’s inner shadow (umbra) and appear red. This will happen shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is a lunar eclipse?<\/p>\n

A lunar eclipse happens when the earth is sandwiched between the sun and the moon. The earth’s shadow is then cast onto the lunar surface.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When you see the red hues on the moon, you’re essentially seeing all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets projected onto the moon.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen to look<\/p>\n

According to NASA Ambassador, Tony Rice, there are specific times to watch. <\/p>\n

He wrote a detailed article regarding the lunar eclipse on wral.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

When the moon goes into earth’s outer shadow (penumbra), you don’t notice much with the naked eye. After 10:33 p.m. Thursday, however, this is when you’ll start to notice a sliver of red projected onto the moon’s surface.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t9:24 p.m.: Penumbral eclipse begins. This stage produces only a subtle dimming and can be difficult to notice with the naked eye.10:34 p.m. Umbral eclipse begins. the Moon starts moving into Earth\u2019s darker umbral shadow. From that point, observers should be able to watch Earth\u2019s shadow gradually move across the moon’s surface.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 3. 11:15 p.m.: 50% partial eclipse, this is a great time to see Earth’s curvature cast onto the surface of the Moon.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 4. 12:12:53 a.m. Friday, maximum eclipse, when 96.3% of the Moon will be within the umbra.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 5. 1:11 a.m. 50% partial eclipse<\/p>\n

\u00a0 6. 1:52 a.m.: Umbral eclipse ends<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 7. 1:02 a.m. Penumbral eclipse ends<\/p>\n

If you get any good pictures, videos, timelapses, etc., make sure to send those our way to ReportIt. We’ll showcase those on the newscasts Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat if I miss this one?<\/p>\n

There won’t be much to look out for in 2027 or in 2028. We’ll have to wait until 2029, according to Tony Rice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He says, “Raleigh will get to see two total lunar eclipses in 2029 however, on June 26 (low in the eastern sky), and December 20 (much higher, similar to this week’s).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A partial lunar eclipse will take place late Thursday night into early Friday morning, August 27 to August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[264706,6626,79633,7042,79,193],"class_list":["post-824295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ask-the-meteorologist","tag-astronomy","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-moon","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824295","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=824295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}