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what's up for September a total eclipse

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of the Harvest Moon hello and welcome

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I'm Jane Houston Jones from NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California on the evening of September

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27th observers at north and south

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america will see a long total lunar

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eclipse lasting 72 minutes this eclipse

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is also visible in Europe and Africa

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it's the night of the Harvest Moon the

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full moon closest to the September

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equinox equinox is derived from the

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Latin for equal night so day and night

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on the 27th will be roughly of equal

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length and the Sun will rise exactly in

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the east and said exactly in the West

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sometimes a full moon is called the

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super moon a term coined just a few

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years ago a super moon is a new or full

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moon which occurs when the moon is at or

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near its closest approach to earth in a

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given orbit there are four to six super

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moons every year on average so they're

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not unusual you won't really be able to

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see the difference between this full

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moon and any other one with your eyes it

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will only be about seven percent larger

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the moon is 221 thousand miles from

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Earth this month as opposed to the

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average distance of two hundred thirty

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nine thousand miles the partial lunar

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eclipse begins at 9:07 p.m. Eastern

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Daylight Time it will last a little more

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than an hour and observers can watch as

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crater by crater the moon is engulfed in

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Earth's shadow westcoast viewers take

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note when the Eclipse begins the moon

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won't have risen yet for you the total

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eclipse begins at 10 11 p.m. Eastern

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Daylight Time

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and also lasts for more than an hour

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ending at 11:23 p.m. the moon's reddish

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color you'll see is caused by sunlight

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refracting through Earth's atmosphere on

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its way to light the moon surface this

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month the moon skims Earth's shadow just

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as it did in the April lunar eclipse in

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April the North Pole appeared a bit

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brighter during totality this time the

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southern pole will appear a bit brighter

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a bit like a partial eclipse

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then it's the whole show in reverse

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order ending at 12:27 a.m. on the East

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Coast and 9:27 p.m. on the west coast

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when you're not eclipsed watching catch

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mercury Saturn Neptune and Pluto in the

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evening sky Uranus and Neptune at

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midnight and Venus Mars and Jupiter in

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the pre-dawn sky finally you can still

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get a great view of our Milky Way

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spanning the sky from Southwest to

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Northeast if you can escape to a dark

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location you can learn about all of

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NASA's missions at WWDC gov that's all