Did you forget to set your alarm overnight to catch the "blood moon?" NASA has posted video of Tuesday morning's total lunar eclipse. Watch it:
There were "whistles, cheers and howls" early Tuesday on the grounds of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles as the moon turned red during a total lunar eclipse.
"Telescopes dotting the lawn pointed upward and southward, as the moon hovered above the observatory" and visitors who had packed the grassy lawn "scrambled toward the front of Griffith Observatory, pointing up at the reddening moon."
Here are images of the lunar eclipse over Texas:
The moon turns red over the Capitol in Austin, TX, during total .
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Last nights blood moon over Texas
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Original post: Even if you don鈥檛 need to stay up late Monday night to finish taxes, you might want to. Starting after midnight, there will be what鈥檚 called a 鈥渂lood moon.鈥� It鈥檚 a full lunar eclipse, and it鈥檚 the first of a rare series of eclipses over the next two years.
As earth鈥檚 shadow crosses in front of the moon late Monday night, we will begin to see a dull, red glow, similar to the color visible at sunset.
, a planetary scientist and associate professor at the , explains the colorful eclipse is the first of four, consecutive total lunar eclipses occurring at approximately six-month intervals.
鈥淎nd what makes this particular tetrad special even though there will be nine in the 21st century, is that it is entirely visible from North America and specifically from the U.S. and Texas,鈥� Urquhart told 四虎影院.
To catch a glimpse, Urquhart says start looking high in the night sky around 1 a.m.
The moon will appear to vanish, she says, and then you鈥檒l see that eerie, blood red glow.
