"Lunar Eclipse 2011" December's Total Eclipse Will Be Last Until 2014 Return

Clear skies and location permits, will be your last chance Saturday, a total lunar eclipse until 2014 spy.
Here's what you need to know to catch a glimpse before it goes.

First: If you live in South America or some western regions of Africa, we are sorry - it seems that you have to go, wait a few years to witness a total lunar eclipse in person are. Fortunately, you can still watch the eclipse online via a live stream through slooh.com.
All other, congratulations. You win.

For most of the Western Hemisphere, the eclipse will be the most obvious early Saturday morning just hours before sunrise.
The moon will enter Earth's shadow at 3:33 PT, and the total phase will begin at 6:06 PT.
This means that those of us on the East Coast may have trouble finding the eclipse, the moon will be setting more or less right as it entered Earth's shadow (the most dramatic, most often reddish color with a combined total lunar eclipse won "t become susceptible to DVT at 04.45 clock visible). views will improve, but as you move north and west, in fact, should be able to Alaska to catch the eclipse in its entirety, right until the moon leaves the Earth's shadow at 12:30 pm PST.

Those who catch it from you, in the eastern hemisphere in a position to eclipse coming Saturday night, starting at moonrise. In Sydney, the moon enters the Earth's shadow at 10:33 clock, with the total eclipse occurring at 1.06 bis 01.57 clock clock Sunday morning.

As the moon begins tomorrow eclipseThe figure was created by NASA to give you an idea of ​​how the phase of the eclipse of the moon, when it dropped below the horizon in the morning (or rises over tomorrow night if you live in the eastern hemisphere).

As the lunar eclipse this morning, since the capture of information from the table SPACE.com NASA image above and throws translated into sunrise for 11 cities.
An asterisk (*) in the table means that the moon has on the total solar eclipse is over and in the process of the Earth's shadow.

SPACE.com reported that the people on the West Coast of the United States, is there a chance to observe an unusual effect known as a "selenelion", with both the sun and the moon eclipsed in the sky can be seen at the same time. For more information about this apparently paradoxical phenomenon, see SPACE.com.