East Lansing residents will have a chance to watch the moon slip deep into Earth’s shadow Thursday night, turning much of the lunar surface a reddish hue during a nearly total lunar eclipse.
Bob Victor, astronomer emeritus of the Michigan State University Abrams Planetarium, reached out to East Lansing Info about the coming celestial event.
On Thursday evening the full moon will rise shortly before sunset, Victor said. Later that night, at 10:33 p.m., the moon will enter the “dark, central core of Earth’s shadow” and the partial lunar eclipse will begin…