Total Lunar Eclipse Due
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
North and South America will be treated Sept. 26 to a total lunar eclipse.
“The big questions at this eclipse are how dark the moon is going to get and what colors it’s going to show,” said Alan MacRobert, an editor at Cambridge-based Sky & Telescope magazine. When fully eclipsed, the moon will dimly glow orange-red or red-brown, depending on the amount of dust in the stratosphere.
Even when it’s completely in the Earth’s shadow, the moon doesn’t get entirely dark because of sunlight filtering around Earth’s edge.
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