{"id":1629,"date":"2010-12-14T13:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2010-12-14T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T18:13:19","slug":"1629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2010\/12\/1629\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1630\" title=\"lunar-eclipse\" src=\"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar-eclipse-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar-eclipse-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar-eclipse-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar-eclipse-400x275.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunar-eclipse.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sky watchers, look for a warm place to view this month\u2019s lunar eclipse on the night of December 20<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 It promises to be the best lunar eclipse until April 2014 for North America.<\/p>\n<p>The last total lunar eclipse occurred on February 20, 2008.\u00a0 While there are two total lunar eclipses in 2011, North American sky watchers will have to wait until April 2014 for one as potentially spectacular as the eclipse occurring this month.<\/p>\n<p>Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes through a point in its orbit in which the Earth is directly between it and the sun.\u00a0 When the moon enters the shadow of Earth, it creates a lunar eclipse.\u00a0 A total lunar eclipse is when the entire moon is completely inside the Earth\u2019s shadow.\u00a0 Since the sun\u2019s rays are bent by Earth\u2019s atmosphere so that some still reach the moon, the moon is still visible in an eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>For the Western Hemisphere, the eclipse will \u201cofficially\u201d begin on December 21 at 12:29 am EST as the moon begins to enter Earth\u2019s outer shadow.\u00a0 The start of the total eclipse if 2:40 am EST, with the greatest eclipse occurring at 3:17 am EST, and ending the total eclipse at 3:53 am EST.\u00a0 This total lunar eclipse lasts only about 72 minutes from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>The entire total lunar eclipse will be visible from all of North and South America, the northern and western parts of Europe, and a small part of northeast Asia, including Korea and much of Japan.\u00a0 Totality will also be visible in its entirety from the North Island of New Zealand and Hawaii.\u00a0 In all, an estimated 1.5 billion people will have an opportunity to enjoy the best part of this lunar show.<\/p>\n<p>December\u2019s total lunar eclipse promises to ring the year 2010 out with a dazzling show, weather permitting, this holiday season.\u00a0 But bundle up and stay warm!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky watchers, look for a warm place to view this month\u2019s lunar eclipse on the night of December 20th.\u00a0 It promises to be the best lunar eclipse until April 2014 for North America. The last total lunar eclipse occurred on February 20, 2008.\u00a0 While&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}