Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16

which given your location tells you what to expect. For me the news is bleak: full eclipse begins at 05:23 local time, and sunrise is just 4 minutes later, so the darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky. But the site overall is a go-to for easily digested information on all things daylight.

oneepic• 4 years ago

Ironically, the website is called "timeanddate" and I'm still confused by the times on this site. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong... let me know. Right now it's 12:53 PST, and the countdown says it's about 5hr 38 mins to go until the eclipse begins, but then if you click the Seattle link on that page [1] it says it actually begins at 8:34 pm PST. On top of that, it shows the maximum at 9:11 pm PST.

In short, maybe the countdown is 3 hours off? And it's trying to communicate the time left until the maximum?

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle

perihelions• 4 years ago

From further down on your link:

- "6:32 pm: Penumbral Eclipse begins / Below horizon"

- "8:29 pm: Total Eclipse begins / Below horizon"

- "8:34 pm: Moonrise / Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends."

reaperducer2• 4 years ago

Right now it's 12:53 PST

I think you mean PDT. Which may or may not account for some of the miscalculation.

dahart• 4 years ago

How amazing is timeanddate.com? I freaking love this site so much. Somehow it always seems surprising to me, maybe because of the colors or slightly cartoony look or something, I can’t quite put my finger on it. But the content is so consistently top notch, clearly made by people who care.

obloid• 4 years ago

It's one of my favorite sites. I love the focus on high quality, easy to interpret information without click bait, intrusive ads, etc. I wish there were more sites like it.

tshaddox• 4 years ago

I actually very briefly looked into how get this basic data about sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset times and headings for any location on Earth (because I wanted to make a simple website to visualize the data as a fun side project). There must be some free/open source software models of the Sun-Earth-Moon system that could be combined with some basic GIS model of Earth to provide reasonably accurate data for any location on Earth, but I'm just so far away from these fields I probably don't know the right things to search for.

weberer• 4 years ago

darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky

Full moons are always directly opposite the sun. You'd be more concerned about it disappearing beyond the horizon.

thombat2• 4 years ago

Out of sheer cussedness I just took a look (45 mins before start of total eclipse). The earth's shadow is quite apparent at this point but the sky behind it is already quite pale. So I great that once the "bite" is complete the contrast to a normal full moon will be obscured.

quickthrower2• 4 years ago

Ha ha, I have better news: I cannot see it at all. So no alarm setting or FOMO needed!

ChrisRR• 4 years ago

I'm in the UK so what to expect is full cloud

DoreenMichele2• 4 years ago

A lot of years ago, I watched a total eclipse of the moon from the parking lot of my husband's place of employment. My husband, our kids and some of his coworkers attended as well.

The moon turned red at some point. It was a pretty eerie experience.

If you can do so at least once in your life, I recommend it.

Total eclipses aren't all that common. Eclipses occur every six months, usually in pairs (one solar, one lunar, two weeks apart), but most are partial eclipses.

sp332• 4 years ago

Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :(

DoreenMichele2• 4 years ago

Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :(

I've done a bit of searching and can find nothing that corroborates your statement. If you could link me to a study or other data source showing a correlation between lunar eclipses and specific weather events, I would be interested.

Edit: As noted in a different comment, solar eclipses do impact weather: https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-ecli...

russdill• 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

the_oh_of_ples• 4 years ago

I think the OP was bemoaning the fact that the thunderstorms will prevent them from seeing the eclipse.

layer84• 4 years ago

It’s a lunar eclipse, not a solar eclipse (which does affect weather to some degree).

dom96• 4 years ago

Even though this is from gov.uk it doesn't seem the UK gets this fully? Feels like eclipses are always disappointing in the UK

layer84• 4 years ago

The maximum of the eclipse is below the horizon in UK/Europe, unfortunately.

dr_dshiv• 4 years ago

But how tall of a tower do you seen to see it?

CalChris• 4 years ago

Moonrise isn't until 8:04pm YC time. But the eclipse itself will have already begun at 6:32 pm. The eclipse is today YC time but tomorrow GMT.

12ian34• 4 years ago

did pg get his own timezone now?

layer84• 4 years ago

Well, there’s PGT. ;)

fareesh• 4 years ago

Turn around...

SemanticStrengh• 4 years ago

It's a total eclipse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk

akavi• 4 years ago

As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024

Cadwhisker• 4 years ago

The one I'm waiting for will be a toal solar eclipse for 4 minutes over Sydney on the 22nd July 2028...

https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0412028/

Knowing Sydney, they'll probably blow up a ton of fireworks or something...

bittercynic• 4 years ago

A good one for North America in October, 2023 also: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2023-october-14

flawn• 4 years ago

WOW, I HAD NIGHT SHIFT AND WAS 30 MIN TOO LATE. the moon was already behind the mountains

dudeinjapan• 4 years ago

Total Eclipse of the Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

thealienthing• 4 years ago

This explains a lot. I was driving in LA on vacation with my family and we were surprised to see the full moon covered by a “dark cloud” that kept covering more and more until I couldn’t see it for a while. The evening sky just made it seem like it must be cloud or smog in the distance.

hsnewman• 4 years ago

Just remember not to look directly at it...

bagels• 4 years ago

It is generally considered safe to look at a lunar eclipse.

lunchladydoris• 4 years ago

That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.

genocidicbunny• 4 years ago

Watching this up near Lick Observatory was a lovely way to spend an evening. Lovely view of the South Bay Area, lovely view of the moon.

asim• 4 years ago

I'm in the UK near London. I couldn't see it. Sorely disappointed. Someday I'd like to witness this with my own eyes.

raffraffraff• 4 years ago

I'm in Dublin. I can't remember the last time there was any sort of eclipse, meteor shower or alignment of the planets that wasn't obscured by cloud. If it had been yesterday morning it would have been clear.

Gordonjcp• 4 years ago

I got up to take a look, but after three days of entirely cloudless skies it was pissing down with rain and the cloud base somewhere around the top of the garden fence.

Of course even down south here at 56.5°N it still gets light really early this time of year, so it was already light enough to see that I was not going to see the moon.

Maursault• 4 years ago

Wish I could have gotten a picture. I've seen a few lunar eclipses before, usually looks like a round shadow slowly covering a flat disk. Something was different last night; Moon looked more 3-dimensional, at first like a round egg, then as the penumbra shadow fell, it started to look distinctly like an eye-ball. The rest was typical, but that part stunned me.

Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16

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