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what's up for februari we have a lunar

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eclipse and a great view of Saturn I'm

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Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California the lunar eclipse that

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happens this month on the twentieth of

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februari can be seen really well from

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all parts of the United States if you

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live on the west coast you'll start to

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see the eclipse at about quarter to six

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pm the shadow of Earth crosses the moon

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and the moon darkens it doesn't go away

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it doesn't turn really dark black it

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turns kind of a reddish hue and it'll

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take a little over an hour to reach the

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full shadow which is called the total

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eclipse you want me to telescope to view

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this but if you do look at the moon

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through a telescope you'll be able to

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see individual craters and other

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features go in and out of the shadows

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ancient astronomers or sky watchers

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looked up at an eclipse and they saw a

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curved shadow and that told them

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something about our solar system

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on the twenty-fourth of februari Saturn

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reaches opposition Saturn and the Sun

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are on opposite sides of birth this

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means that Saturn is closer to Earth and

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it appears a little bit larger in the

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sky it'll look like a golden starry glow

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and through a telescope what you'll see

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is not only the planet but you'll see

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the Rings you'll be able to see several

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moons as well the Cassini spacecraft is

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right there at the Saturn system taking

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images and measurements of Saturn and