WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) — A rare total lunar eclipse, called a supermoon eclipse or blood moon, will be visible around the world Sunday night into Monday, the first time since 1982 and the last until 2033.
The celestial event will be visible in most of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, western Asia and the eastern Pacific. In the United States, the eclipse will begin at 8:11 p.m. ET Sunday and peak at 10:47 p.m. ET.
NASA said, “the proverbial stars only align for this event once every few decades, making this phenomenon much rarer than a supermoon or a lunar eclipse separately.” The supermoon eclipse is expected to last an hour and 11 minutes.
“That’s rare because it’s something an entire generation may not have seen,” said Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA will live stream the event from its Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Mitzi Adams, a NASA solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will discuss the eclipse and answer questions from Twitter using #askNASA.
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