Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Aug 4, 2009 1:47:44 GMT -6
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
05 August 2009
05 August 2009
(...not a good one I'm afraid)
This Wednesday, the Moon will experience it's 3rd of four eclipses of 2009...but it will be a very light one. So faint, the penumbral shadow of the Earth will be, it's reported that visually, it will not be perceivable. Perhaps, but it may make a deeper red Moonrise.
(The December 31st eclipse is not good one either... 
)
)For Chicago, Moonrise is at 8:17 pm and the eclipse will have started a couple of hours before, so look for any slight changes in color during Moonrise and just enjoy our Lunar neighbor - slight eclispe tint or not.