Lunar eclipse on Wednesday 15th June

[funkyrobot]

Am I right in thinking that we will be able to see (if the cloud cover allows it) a nice lunar eclipse just after 8pm on Wednesday?

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/eclipse.html

Sorry if this is a repost.

[Stu R]

Yep, it's a central eclipse too which are more rare.

The further south you are the better you'll see it as it'll be rising eclipsed. Up north where the moon rise is later, we'll miss a lot of it. Further north up into the top of Scotland they won't see it.

[funkyrobot]

I'm in Lincolnshire so not too far North. Forecast is for cloud though; bloody typical!!

[NathanJones]

Unfortunately, it's cloudy over most of the UK today. A little more info:

The eclipse will begin at 6.24pm (BST), but will be not be visible from the UK until sunset at roughly 9.13pm when the eclipse is predicted to reach its darkest phase or ‘totality’.

Totality is the time when Earth's shadow completely covers the moon, which is expected to end at 10.03pm.

The moon is set to rise whilst in eclipse across Europe, Middle East, Africa, southern Asia and Australia turning from grey to an extraordinary blood-red.

[Chrisgr31]

So this explains why its cloudy and raining this evening!

[knight]

Clearing up down south so fingers crossed it's visible

[Dizeee]

There is a thread in photography about this, I am gonna post some pics...