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A reddish, near-total lunar eclipse will be visible Thursday night

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Caroline EggersWPLN News
A near-total lunar eclipse was visible in Nashville on November 19, 2021.
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A near-total lunar eclipse will be visible across the continent this Thursday night. 

The Earth, sun and moon will align for the deepest partial lunar eclipse anywhere on the planet until New Year’s Eve 2028. 

About 96% of the moon will fall into Earth’s shadow. 

Courtesy NASA

The lunar eclipse will peak in Nashville at 11:12 p.m. CST, which is five hours behind Universal Time (UTC).

The lunar disk, which is the visible surface of the moon, will begin to darken Thursday at 8:23 p.m. CST, but it will take an hour to really see the first semicircle of shadow as the moon circles around the planet. 

The moon may appear reddish by the time the eclipse peaks at 11:12 p.m., as sunlight filtered through Earth’s atmosphere refracts onto its surface. 

It’s been more than a year since the last total lunar eclipse over Nashville.

Caroline Eggers, Environmental Reporter

Caroline Eggers covers environmental issues with a focus on equity for WPLN News through Report for America, a national service program that supports journalists in local newsrooms across the country. Before joining the station, she spent several years covering water quality issues, biodiversity, climate change and Mammoth Cave National Park for newsrooms in the South. Her reporting on homelessness and a runoff-related “fish kill” for the Bowling Green Daily News earned her 2020 Kentucky Press Association awards in the general news and extended coverage categories, respectively. Beyond deadlines, she is frequently dancing, playing piano and photographing wildlife and her poodle, Princess. She graduated from Emory University with majors in journalism and creative writing.

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