A total lunar eclipse will be visible from Indiana starting Sunday.
Astronomers say the eclipse will begin as a full moon rising late Sunday night and will end shortly after midnight.
A Lunar Eclipse this Sunday, May 15th! Check out our page for more information: https://t.co/kwjjoOCHmK . — iuastro (@iuastro) May 12, 2022
According to IU’s astronomy department, in a web post earlier this month, the event will begin 10:28 p.m. eastern and last around 85 minutes.
It says the lunar surface will slowly turn dusky gray before becoming orange, and the effect will be particularly noticeable through a telescope.
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Patrick Motl, professor of physics at IU-Kokomo, says the apparent color change is caused by our own atmosphere
“The moon will be much darker and have a red hue during totality because there is some light that passes through our atmosphere and reflects off the moon even when it is in our umbra,” Motl said in a statement last week. “That light is red for the same reason the sky is blue during the day. Blue light is more scattered than red light.”
IU-Kokomo open house
Motl is hosting an open house at Kokomo’s observatory Sunday night and give a presentation on Caltech’s LIGO gravitational wave observatory.
Experts say the totality will last from 11:29 p.m. to 12:54 a.m.
