Full Lunar Eclipse for North America

tech81 writes "MSNBC is reporting that all of North America will experience a full lunar eclipse on January 20, which also happens to be the first full moon of the new year. Check out the article at MSNBC Space News."

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First time in 30038392 Years!

[SGC]

The combination of a full moon and a full lunar eclipse will result in the moon appearing 0.02001% larger AND brighter than it has in several centuries!

This will truly be an exciting night! I suggest everyone emails every person they know with this amazing news!

Upcoming eclipses

[B.D.Mills]

I happen to have the pair of NASA publications as reference books: (Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses: 1986-2035 and (Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses: 1986-2035)... so here's the details.

Next total solar eclipse visible from the United States: 21 August 2017. If you live in California, you'll have to go to Oregon to see it (assuming that Oregon's that state north of California, my US geography is not too good)

Then there's a total solar eclipse visible from Texas to the Great Lakes on 8 Apr 2024.

A third American total solar eclipse is on 12 Aug 2045, visible from northern California to Florida.

There's more, but it's pointless posting those because you won't be around in 2078 or 2099 to see those ones (unless you're a Montgomery-Burns-style head-in-a-jar-of-liquid then...)

As for total lunar eclipses, I'll give details of upcoming total eclipses by naming the dates and the approximate position of the point of the Earth's surface that's directly overhead at maximum eclipse:

• 21 Jan 2000 - Carribbean
  
• 16 Jul 2000 - the sea near Brisbane (Australia)
  
• 09 Jan 2001 - Saudi Arabia
  
• 16 May 2003 - Brazil
  
• 09 Nov 2003 - Atlantic Ocean west of Africa
  
• 04 May 2004 - Madagascar
  
• 28 Oct 2004 - Atlantic Ocean north of Brazil

For the Americans, who are the majority of the Slashotters, these total lunar eclipses should be visible at some point in the night in question:

• 21 Jan 2000 - good view from all of U.S. and Canada
  
• 16 Jul 2000 - beginning of eclipse visible from western U.S., but no view of totality
  
• 09 Jan 2001 - end of eclipse visible from eastern U.S. and Canada but no view of totality
  
• 16 May 2003 - Good view of eclipse from most of U.S. and Canada, but western regions will miss the beginning of eclipse.
  
• 09 Nov 2003 - Most of eclipse visible from the U.S. and Canada, most regions will miss the beginning
  
• 04 May 2004 - Not visible
  
• 28 Oct 2004 - All of eclipse visible from U.S. and Canada, except for western regions that miss the beginning; all of totality visible