The Moon will go into total eclipse during the night of May 15-16, Sunday-Monday.
Here are parts of illustrations in the “Eclipses” section of our online Astronomical Calendar 2022, where there is much more information. The Moon passing through the southern half of Earth’s umbra or total shadow, in which it spends an hour and 25 minutes:
And Earth as seen from the Moon at the middle of the even 4:15 by Universal Time, which in the Eastern time zone of North America is 11:15 P<:
– showing the lands that will be facing the Moon in hte middle of the eclipse.
And the sky scene from latitude 40° north, during totality:
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It won’t be visible from here, sadly. We’ll have to wait until 8 November.
In the Western European Time Zone the eclipse begins at 0228 on the 16th and is still happening as it sets thus a clear western horizon is needed free of buildings and trees and obviously maximum elevation too.Thus I intend to take my sleeping bag up a mountain in the English Pennines and await it there at an altitude of 620m..I shall have to keep a close eye on the weather forecast lest it rains.
Guy I think you may want to update the time of mid-eclipse in the Eastern USA Time Zone. Currently we are on DST, so the mid-eclipse time here is 12:11AM EDT (or 00:11 EDT if using a 24HR clock) on May 16th.