Eclipse set to be 'best in years'

Wanted to give the star gazers here a heads up.
Should be a good showing.

(BBC)-Skywatchers eagerly awaiting Saturday's total lunar eclipse say that the spectacle could be the "best in years".

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The eclipse begins at 2018 GMT, with the Moon totally immersed in the shadow of the Earth between 2244 and 2358 GMT.

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During "totality", only light that has been filtered through the Earth's atmosphere reaches the Moon's surface, making it appear a reddish colour.

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The eclipse will be visible from the whole of Europe, Africa, South America, and eastern parts of the US and Canada.

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West coast viewers are out of luck. They happen every 1.2 years. East Coast starts around 5:44pm. The moon gets a reddish hue in appearance due to the earths reflection. I'll be getting my binoculars out, celestron 15x70, kind of hard to hold steady but they have wide 4 degree field of view. That Alabama storm has recently brought in alot of cloud cover, it's doubtful but I'm hoping.

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