Most people must have heard by now that there will be a total lunar eclipse later this week, on Thursday (or Wednesday, depending on your time zone). Unfortunately Australians will miss this one; it will be visible, at least in part, basically everywhere else but here (that's not entirely true: Japan, most of China, southeast Asia, New Zealand and several Pacific nations will also miss it, but it's close enough to the truth...).
The eclipse starts at 00:34 GMT on Thursday (11:34 ADST for those intent on following it online; or, for American readers, 19:34 EST or 16:34 PST on Wednesday — observers in the west coast of the US will see the Moon rise with the eclipse already in progress) and totality will go from 03:00 to 03:51 GMT (Thu 14:00-14:51 ADST, Wed 22:00-22:51 EST, Wed 19:00-19:51 PST). Full details are here.
For the record, Australian observers will see part of a partial (but almost total) eclipse on 16 August — the Moon will set for all of the country before the eclipse is over.
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