By Kyler Johnson/Gator Galaxy Staff
During the evening hours of Sept. 27 Lincolnites were able to catch a rare lunar eclipse that will not happen again until 2033.
According to NASA, the eclipse will began around 9:07 p.m. Eastern Standard Time or around 8:07 p.m. Central Standard Time. The big thing that made this eclipse different from others is the fact that it occurred when there was a full moon or “super moon.” The moon is only 221,000 miles away from earth this from, compared to the typical 239,000 miles seen during the rest of the year.
The show will only lasted around an hour, so many viewers set an alarm and had cameras ready to catch this rare event. It was viewed best in North America and South America, but Africa and Europe were also able to get into some of the action.
Earlier this month, the moon was a red color, because wildfires in Canada and the northwestern United States released copious amounts of smoke into the air, causing a hazier and more red moon. The reason it was red on Sunday is because sunlight was refracting from the Earth’s atmosphere onto the moon.
If you weren’t able to catch the eclipse, no worries, you won’t miss out on all the space action going on. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you’ll be able to see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto during the evening. To top that, you’ll also be able to see Uranus and Neptune during the midnight hours, and finally you can Venus, Mars and Jupiter in the early morning just before the sun rises.
