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    You've probably heard about the eclipse next week? (Tuesday 3rd March)
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    You’ve probably heard about the eclipse next week? (Tuesday 3rd March)


    A montage I made with images I captured from the September Lunar eclipse last year that shows (NOT TO SCALE) how the moon passes through the inner and outer Earth's shadow).

    Your viewing schedule is as follows:

    7:49 pm                                         (P1) Moon rise, moon is already in penumbra

    8:50 pm                                          (U1) Partial Eclipse shadow now visible as it moves across the moon

    10:04 pm                                       (U2 No not Bono) Total Eclipse Begins

    10:33 pm                                       (Maximum) Moon is closest to the centre of the shadow.

    11:02 pm                                       (U3) Total Eclipse ends

    12:17 am                                        (U4) Partial Eclipse ends, visible shadow has left the building  

    1:23 am                                          (P4) Penumbral Eclipse ends, the Earth's penumbra clears the moon

    Where is P2 and P3 (are you thinking what I’m thinking P2?)  Here's little homework to help you with that. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/reference/map.html

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    3. OkTemperature-8534 on

      I wouldn’t be holding out much hope to see it from Melbourne though. Most of the global weather models are in agreement that we’ll be sitting directly under a trough of tropical low pressure, which is pretty much the perfect recipe for widespread cloud and possible rain.

      There’s still a couple of days for the forecasts to shift the trough around and possibly give us clearer skies, but I wouldn’t say it’s overly likely to happen at this point.