Backyard Universe: Total lunar eclipse is dramatic and unhurried
If you get a telescope under the Christmas tree, you won’t have to wait long to aim it at a significant, colorful, high profile astronomical event.Late on the night of Jan. 20, the full moon will plunge into Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse. It will be the best one in a few years for us in the southeastern U.S. because, if we have clear skies, we get to watch the whole event start to finish.Plus, it happens the night before the Martin Luther King […]
