Wednesday, Feb. 20, will be "Lunar Eclipse Night," for if the weather is fair you should have no difficulty observing a total eclipse of the moon.

The eclipse will be visible wherever the moon is above the horizon during the time frame that the eclipse is taking place. As it turns out, North and South America will turned toward the moon and will be in excellent position for this sky show.

Europe, Africa and a part of western Asia will also be able to see the eclipse, although for these regions the event will take place in hours just before sunrise on the morning of Feb. 21.

The total phase will last 51-minutes and begins at 10:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. PST).

As a bonus, during the eclipse the moon will be situated, in our sky, near the planet Saturn and the bright bluish star Regulus in the constellation of Leo. The effect will be to create a uniquely beautiful triangle in the sky consisting of the totally eclipsed moon, a bright naked-eye planet and one of the 21 brightest stars in the sky.
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i think it takes place in the UK from 3:01 AM

SWEET! I love eclipses! Can't wait for this. I gotta remember this too.

I'll be checking it out provided I remember on the 20th.

I do hope you remember left field.
That news is awesome owl's,i can't wait.

3:01am why cant it be pm,

Hey, at least it's going to be clear here.

And it's going to be cloudy.

(POUT) The weather never cooperates with these things here.

yeap looking foggy and cloudy at the moment

I'd be much more excited if it were a total eclipse of the heart.

I love eclipses....... but if it occurs just before sunrise in Europe I guess I'll miss it. I can't be bothered to get up that early just to look at the moon

Relax, I checked out BBC weather () and it says the majority of England will be clear at around 3:00am.

People in Western Europe & the Americas will be able to see it. The weather tomorrow night seems fair. Where I live.

Hopefully, I'll be able to remember.

B.C. weather is so unpredictable in my parts anyway, but i hope we get to see it!

2am and all is well, i can see the moon

now its gone because of the cold damp foggy conditions

Same. Stayed up until 3:30 hoping to catch something, lol.

Bloody weather.

Its going to be tonight.Im very excited.

what do you mean tonight?

did somebody get their days mixed up, come on own up who was it, dont make me search through this thread looking for the guilty party

The eclipse starts here at about 8:10 P.M. with the full eclipse about 10:15...But as Purplos said, the skies are supposed to be cloudy...I would love to be able to see it....fascinating..

Awesome, I'm going to enjoy that. uh oh! Let's hope all those End of Days people don't start coming out of the wood works, lol. Then they'll be saying look! Zombies! Vampires! Werewolves! oh my! But all seriousness, I'm really going to enjoy seeing a lunar eclipse. At least it'll be while I'm still awake as well as my fiancee and little brother. They'd enjoy it too I think.

yep its tonight (well early hours tomorrow) http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

i sorted my telescope out and im thinking of putting it all away, coz the weather forecast is ***SNIP***

i wish, you'd stop saying im trying to bypass the bad language filter thing, i write the bad language and leave it to the filter to filter it, you write the word you edited out and your filter doesnt filter it, this has happened a few times check your filter,.

I long to see the Red moon!

What will it be mountain time?

The lunar eclipse has arrived! The bottom right corner of the moon is gone now.

We have clear skies in Calgary and a great view

We have partly cloudy skies in Kansas, which hasn't effected it yet, but it will, which sux

It's England therefore it's cloudy

All winter we've had no snow, and tonight we do......Ours was supposed to start about 8:10 p.m. It's 9p.m. and I can't see a thing....What a let down...... To you guys who can catch it, enjoy.....

That sux really bad

I had a perfect view, but it's clouded over now....the clouds are going in patches, so we see it every now and then.

same here.. clouded over more when it was about 98% no red moon for me

Can see it awesome from here.. clear skies..

Here is a photo I took in San Angelo Tx. a few minutes ago.

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It's almost over, we sat and watched it for over 45 mins. It was so cool!

We had crystal clear skies tonight....leading to very cold temperatures, but great view! It was a beautiful shade of orange/red.

By the way, the temperature is 12F right now.

I missed this one, it was cloudy and it was at 4 am, so I saw the were clouds then went back to bed.

I couldn,t watch it that long , there were a few passing clouds, but it cleared and was great to see!

profoundly awesome!
loved the added bonus of seeing Saturn's rings and Regulus!
Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation Leo.

a friend of mine took some pictures of it

Yes sir...

A very pretty sight it was.
Almost like it was ordained, the snow in the Mid-Atlantic ended and the front had pushed through just as the eclipse began, and it wound up crystal clear and a full red-turquoise edged eclipse manifested.

A nice way to spend the evening...although I've never been able to get the idea out of my head of what it would be like once totality occurred...from the surface of the Moon.

Imagine being able to stand there, as the Earth passed behind the Sun, and seeing a red ring in the sky, and that reddish tint all around you!

Someday, hopefully...some human will see what no eyes have ever beheld.

Those were awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Great pictures....I send them to my grandson who is so into astronomy, so thanks........

it must've been wonderful to you who have watched it happen.

It realle looked nice from Buenos Aires. The enxt is in December 20th, 2010, right?

I had a beautiful clear view. I was kinda expecting it to look more red though, looked brown to me.

so pretty, yours was red no fair

I went out around 11:00 pm here in NJ and got a nice look at it all red except for the barest white sliver on the lower edge. Very nice.

It was clear skys in PA. WOW it was great!!!