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Lunar Eclipse: What Time is the Lunar Eclipse 2010: Watch Online

by MROliver | December 20, 2010 at 08:14 pm

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Lunar Eclipse Tonight: What Time is the Lunar Eclipse December 20 2010

The lunar eclipse tonight should be visible in North and Central America starting December 20 2010 and is expected to last three-and-a-half hours as long as the skies are clear and free from clouds.

What time is the lunar eclipse 2010?

It should start at about 11:41pm PST or 2:41am EST on Tuesday December 21 2010 according to the AP.

The totality phase should last a little over an hour.

NASA recommends viewing the eclipse 3:17 am EST for the optimal viewing time if you don't want to watch the whole thing.

"It's perfectly placed so that all of North America can see it," said eclipse expert Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Winter Solstice And Lunar Eclipse 2010 Coincide

Watch the Lunar Eclipse Online

The Slooh space camera is expected to live stream the total lunar eclipse via Google Earth.

You have to sign up to Slooh to see the eclipse, which is free.

The live feed can be accessed by clicking on the planets icon in the Google Earth toolbar to switch to Sky mode. In the layers panel, open the Current Sky Events folder and click on the Slooh Space Camera layer.

December 21 is also the winter solstice, which is the longest night of the year and the days will get longer after this eclipse.

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fk (not verified)

at 20:37 on December 20th, 2010

*shortest day of the year

rahul kalra (not verified)

at 08:39 on December 21st, 2010

Live Lunar Eclipse Camera Video Footage OnlineSTARTING TIME :- 21st DEC at 1:33am EST on the East Coast tinyurl.com/2cna8wg

SMt (not verified)

at 10:13 on December 21st, 2010

Hey, so much for the value of crowd sourced information. The moon began the process of eclipse at 10:41 PST, not 11:41. Thanks to this uninformed site for providing the wrong information.