Special Event: Total Lunar Eclipse Viewing Night

Lunar Eclipse Viewing at Turner Farm, Observatory Park has been canceled due to extremely cold weather.

Sun 9:30pm - 1am Jan 20 2019:  Come experience the total lunar eclipse of the night of January 20 at the Turner Farm Park roll-top observatory.  Enjoy a campfire, marshmallow roasting, and constellation viewing as well.  See close-up views of the Moon as it is eclipsed by the earth through telescopes in the Roll-Top Observatory,  While you're there, catch a telescopic vierw of Mars, and have a look at beautiful star clusters.

Observator Park at Turner Farm will stay open to the end of the eclipse.  For more information, see www.analemma.org.  Event subject to cancellation due to weather and cloudy conditions.  Park opens at 9:30 PM, Sunday, January 20.

In spite of the cold weather and the cancellation of viewing at Turner Farm, Bill Burton and Don Fowler, both of the Analemma Society, took hand-held shots of the moon with their camera.  Bill's photo is posted at right.  He says, "I stayed close to home--50 ft from my front door in the lee of a row of townhouses--and set up my portable Orion 8-inch reflector in the parking lot.  This is a handheld shot through the eyepiece, with a non-SLR camera.   Even with chemical handwarmers, my warmest down coat, and Sorel boots, I had to come in a couple times during totality to warm up."

January 20-21, 2019 Lunar Eclipse Times

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Penumbral Eclipse begins: 9:36 PM ET
Partial Eclipse begins: 10:33 PM ET
Full Eclipse begins: 11:41 PM ET
Maximum Eclipse: 12:12 AM ET
Full Eclipse ends: 12:43 AM ET
Partial Eclipse ends: 1:50 AM ET
Penumbral Eclipse ends: 2:48 AM ET