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Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

  • Thursday, March 13, 2025
  • 9:30 PM
  • Friday, March 14, 2025
  • 4:00 AM
  • Idaho

The full moon is fun to look at. 

Its reflected sunlight is so  bright it can make it difficult to view very dim objects like  galaxy's, nebula or other deep sky objects. But  many details on the moons surface are visible.

If you do have  a telescope a 'moon filter' can be had to help dim the full moon's light.

On March 13 and 14 the Full Moon will be eclipsed by earths shadow -  commonly known as a Lunar Eclipse

The eclipse will begin on ,Thursday, March, 13, 2025
and end on the early morning Friday, March 14th 2025

Timings:

9:57 PM: The moon begins to enter Earth's partial (penumbral) shadow (it is barely noticeable).

10:15 PM: At this time the moon's bottom half will begin to look shaded.

11:10 PM: A dark "bite" begins growing from its lower edge as the moon begins to enter Earth's dark (umbral) shadow. 

12:26 AM - begin Totality 
12:58 AM Maximum eclipse
1:31 AM: - end Totality 

The moon is fully immersed in dark (umbral) shadow. A dull red-orange color will span the full surface of the moon during totality.

1:31 AM: A small, bright crescent starts growing from the moon's left side as it begins to emerge from the umbra (Full Eclipse ends)

2:48 AM: The last bit of umbra slips off the moon's right edge, the end of the last partial phase.

4:00 AM: The eclipse concludes.

You don't have to have any equipment  or special lenses to see or view a lunar eclipse. As you can see from the times above, lunar eclipses stay  in the umbra - red/orange color - for about an hour. Where as a solar eclipse lasts for less than 5 minutes. 

A moon filter is not usually needed when looking at an eclipsed moon. A moon filter acts like a sun glass lens. It makes a very bright full moon surface more comfortable to observe. As the moon's disk is passing through the earths shadow or 'umbra' that shadow provides enough of  a dimming effect that most folks won't need an additional filter to view it  comfortably.





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