How to see tonight’s ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse from Australia

Matt Woods, an amateur astronomer and a tour guide at the Perth Observatory, says anyone in Australia will be able to see it if skies are clear.

“The Moon will look like it’s having a chunk taken out,” he says.

“Just before it starts looking like it’s completely eaten, it’ll turn this blood-orange colour.”

And unlike the last blood moon in September, you won’t have to get up in the middle of the night to see it.

Here’s how you can catch a glimpse of Australia’s last total lunar eclipse until 2029.

The whole lunar eclipse process will take roughly three and a half hours, with the blood moon lasting for about an hour.

Bubblecar said:

How to see tonight’s ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse from Australia

Matt Woods, an amateur astronomer and a tour guide at the Perth Observatory, says anyone in Australia will be able to see it if skies are clear.

“The Moon will look like it’s having a chunk taken out,” he says.

“Just before it starts looking like it’s completely eaten, it’ll turn this blood-orange colour.”

And unlike the last blood moon in September, you won’t have to get up in the middle of the night to see it.

Here’s how you can catch a glimpse of Australia’s last total lunar eclipse until 2029.

The whole lunar eclipse process will take roughly three and a half hours, with the blood moon lasting for about an hour.

Sounds quite good, I’ll try to stay awake for it. I think there’s going to be a fair bit of cloud cover tonight though.
Anyone got a spare Concorde I can use to follow the eclipse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwwofB5_Nc

The lucky ducks (like us) who will see the whole show.

44 second video

Moonrise over the neighbour’s house. Little does the moon know that tonight it will be reddened with the blood of a thousand dragons.

(Old myth says lunar eclipses are the moon being eaten by dragons)

Divine Angel said:

Moonrise over the neighbour’s house. Little does the moon know that tonight it will be reddened with the blood of a thousand dragons.

(Old myth says lunar eclipses are the moon being eaten by dragons)

Unfortunately our friend has entered a very large bank of clouds here, and may be lost for quite a while.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Moonrise over the neighbour’s house. Little does the moon know that tonight it will be reddened with the blood of a thousand dragons.

(Old myth says lunar eclipses are the moon being eaten by dragons)

Unfortunately our friend has entered a very large bank of clouds here, and may be lost for quite a while.

bit of condensed water up above us too

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Moonrise over the neighbour’s house. Little does the moon know that tonight it will be reddened with the blood of a thousand dragons.

(Old myth says lunar eclipses are the moon being eaten by dragons)

Unfortunately our friend has entered a very large bank of clouds here, and may be lost for quite a while.

bit of condensed water up above us too

Can see the dragons starting to eat it.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Moonrise over the neighbour’s house. Little does the moon know that tonight it will be reddened with the blood of a thousand dragons.

(Old myth says lunar eclipses are the moon being eaten by dragons)

Unfortunately our friend has entered a very large bank of clouds here, and may be lost for quite a while.

There be dragons here. Small bite out of the bottom (I don’t think it’s a cloud). The moon is sitting behind a streetlight. I’ll have to go out into the street to beyond the light to get a good look. I’ll wait a bit and then put on a coat.

Just went out the back and the moon has a nice chunk out of it, there’s a few clouds but they make it look nicely moody..
The fruit bats are also out, having a big whinge because they’ve eaten the last two mangoes from my tree last night, they beat me to them.

Went outside for a leak and fortunately there was a small gap in the clouds and I could see a fair bite taken out of the Moon. I wish my big telescope was in one piece, it’d be great to point it at the Moon and see the bite growing.

Yep, those dragons are hungry.

ruby said:

Just went out the back and the moon has a nice chunk out of it, there’s a few clouds but they make it look nicely moody..
The fruit bats are also out, having a big whinge because they’ve eaten the last two mangoes from my tree last night, they beat me to them.

Sounds atmospheric.

Sadly it’s completely clouded over here now apart from a few drifting breaks here and there.

Might catch a peep of the proceedings if I’m lucky to be looking at the right time. But there’s a long way to go yet so who knows.

Spiny Norman said:

Went outside for a leak and fortunately there was a small gap in the clouds and I could see a fair bite taken out of the Moon. I wish my big telescope was in one piece, it’d be great to point it at the Moon and see the bite growing.

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Spiny Norman said:

Went outside for a leak and fortunately there was a small gap in the clouds and I could see a fair bite taken out of the Moon. I wish my big telescope was in one piece, it’d be great to point it at the Moon and see the bite growing.

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Thanks to the slow repairs from the crappy (I’d much prefer to use far stronger words) insurance company Spocky & I are currently living in a caravan on-site. Still waiting for the house to be liveable.
The caravan bathroom is very small and I am fairly large; I simply do not fit in it so I have to either have a leak outside or use a bathroom in the house. For leaks I prefer to go outside as it saves a bit of water.

Spiny Norman said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Spiny Norman said:

Went outside for a leak and fortunately there was a small gap in the clouds and I could see a fair bite taken out of the Moon. I wish my big telescope was in one piece, it’d be great to point it at the Moon and see the bite growing.

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Thanks to the slow repairs from the crappy (I’d much prefer to use far stronger words) insurance company Spocky & I are currently living in a caravan on-site. Still waiting for the house to be liveable.
The caravan bathroom is very small and I am fairly large; I simply do not fit in it so I have to either have a leak outside or use a bathroom in the house. For leaks I prefer to go outside as it saves a bit of water.

Hi folks, welcome to TMI Tuesday.

Spiny Norman said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Spiny Norman said:

Went outside for a leak and fortunately there was a small gap in the clouds and I could see a fair bite taken out of the Moon. I wish my big telescope was in one piece, it’d be great to point it at the Moon and see the bite growing.

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Thanks to the slow repairs from the crappy (I’d much prefer to use far stronger words) insurance company Spocky & I are currently living in a caravan on-site. Still waiting for the house to be liveable.
The caravan bathroom is very small and I am fairly large; I simply do not fit in it so I have to either have a leak outside or use a bathroom in the house. For leaks I prefer to go outside as it saves a bit of water.

Well that’s no good. My sympathies to you both.

Looks around half gone. Orion’s belt is right outside our front door at the moment.

Divine Angel said:

Spiny Norman said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Thanks to the slow repairs from the crappy (I’d much prefer to use far stronger words) insurance company Spocky & I are currently living in a caravan on-site. Still waiting for the house to be liveable.
The caravan bathroom is very small and I am fairly large; I simply do not fit in it so I have to either have a leak outside or use a bathroom in the house. For leaks I prefer to go outside as it saves a bit of water.

Hi folks, welcome to TMI Tuesday.

we apologise for our cistern-front crossposting about iran there

Witty Rejoinder said:

Spiny Norman said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

That’s all well and good but I’m more concerned with your lack of indoor plumbing.

Thanks to the slow repairs from the crappy (I’d much prefer to use far stronger words) insurance company Spocky & I are currently living in a caravan on-site. Still waiting for the house to be liveable.
The caravan bathroom is very small and I am fairly large; I simply do not fit in it so I have to either have a leak outside or use a bathroom in the house. For leaks I prefer to go outside as it saves a bit of water.

Well that’s no good. My sympathies to you both.

Nearly forgot – Because it’s a caravan it’s not connected to the sewage system, all the liquid and solid waste goes into a ‘cassette’ that when full you pull out of the side of the caravan and empty it ….. somewhere else and preferably downwind.
So it’s gloves time when the cassette is needing to be emptied.

buffy said:

Looks around half gone. Orion’s belt is right outside our front door at the moment.

There’s blood everywhere.

Totally blank opaque sky here. The clouds must be thicker than Titan’s.

It’s pussing down here right now so I’ll have to wait about half an hour for it to clear to try again.

Cloud came across just at the wrong time and obliterated it. It was going nicely red too.
Never mind, there will be 50 million pics of it on social media.

ruby said:

Cloud came across just at the wrong time and obliterated it. It was going nicely red too.
Never mind, there will be 50 million pics of it on social media.

Same.

ruby said:

Cloud came across just at the wrong time and obliterated it. It was going nicely red too.
Never mind, there will be 50 million pics of it on social media.

Pretty much gone now. While I stood out there waiting, I saw a couple of satellites go past Orion’s belt. They were very faint, I had to use peripheral viewing to see them. I only saw them because I picked up movement in my peripheral vision. The milky way is lovely and bright tonight.

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

Looks around half gone. Orion’s belt is right outside our front door at the moment.

There’s blood everywhere.

Bullshit. I can see no blood. I might need to get you to cut my arm off.

Come back and fight like a man, fight like a man.

Pretty crappy sorry, this is with a handheld phone. But to the eye it’s clearly much dimmer than usual and also much redder.

Clear skies here. Fairly low in the sky at this time of night for us, just visible above the neighbour’s roof, if I stand in the right spot.

Lots of light pollution here but.

Dogs bark. Stars twinkle. Moon muds.

nearly gone now, having trouble keeping the binoculars on it

party_pants said:

Clear skies here. Fairly low in the sky at this time of night for us, just visible above the neighbour’s roof, if I stand in the right spot.

Lots of light pollution here but.

Yeah, directly in my line of sight was a streetlight, but clear skies, not as red as suggested…

looking lovely.

beautiful night out there right now, about 26C on my backyard thermometer. I could sit out there comfortably, but I’d get eaten alive by the mozzies.

Spiny Norman said:

Pretty crappy sorry, this is with a handheld phone. But to the eye it’s clearly much dimmer than usual and also much redder.

This was taken about 30 minutes later – also using a handheld phone – sky above Melb.

back to a bright sliver in white. The redness has gone.

party_pants said:

looking lovely.

beautiful night out there right now, about 26C on my backyard thermometer. I could sit out there comfortably, but I’d get eaten alive by the mozzies.

25.5° C here now. Mozzies here are moved by the fan. It’s another lunar eclipse. I see no blood, nor blood colours. Perhaps it is subtle, and my colour-blindness is killing the treat for me.

a bit over half “recovered” now.

Although a total eclipse, the moon didn’t go very deep into the earth’s umbra, failing to reach the centre. Thus, it appeared somewhat lopsided, being somewhat light near the edge on one side and orange throughout the rest of the disc.