A partial lunar eclipse will occur before sunrise Monday, and be viewable from California and the Western Hemisphere, and Pacific Ocean; it will also be viewable Monday evening in eastern Asia and Australia.
The partial eclipse of the moon will begin at 3 a.m. PDT, reach its greatest peak at 4:04 a.m., and end just after 5:06 a.m., according to calculations by NASA.
The East Coast will see the eclipse at the same time -- it begins at 6 a.m. EDT, peaks at 7:04 a.m., and ends at 8:06 a.m. New England, however, will miss the show, which occurs after moonset there.
The partial lunar eclipse occurs when the moon, which reflects sunlight onto the Earth at night, will travel into the path of the Earth’s shadow. The view will be particularly exquisite on the U.S. East Coast, where the eclipse will be happening just as the moon sets in the west. It will be low on the horizon, creating the illusion of a very large moon, according to NASA.
“The eclipsed moon, hanging low in the west at daybreak on June 4th, will seem extra-large to U.S. observers east of the Mississippi,” a NASA video said (see video below).
As a result of the eclipse, the Earth’s shadow will take a 37% bite out of the full moon, according to the space agency.
NASA says the June full moon is the “Strawberry Moon,” the Native American name for the moon during the short strawberry harvesting season.
Unfortunately, in much of Southern California, low clouds will ruin the view almost everywhere Monday morning, except for the Interstate 5/Grapevine corridor, the Santa Clarita Valley, Frazier Park, the mountains -- like Mount Wilson -- or deserts, said Dave Bruno, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Oxnard
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