March Lunar Eclipse

From night on March 13 into the early morning of March 14, 2025, in North America, the March Lunar Eclipse can be seen!

NORTH AMERICA – From solar eclipses to Northern Lights displays and moon landings, it’s been an action-packed couple of years for professional and hobbyist astronomers alike. This year, North America will be treated with front-row seats to the first total lunar eclipse worldwide since November 2022! No matter where you are on the night of Thursday, March 13, if you look at the sky, you will see the full moon slowly become obscured by the earth’s shadow. The moon will gradually become reddish-orange, earning this phenomenon the nickname “Blood Moon.” On the West Coast, the moon will don its spooky cloak from 11:26 pm on March 13 until 12:31 am on March 14.

Lunar eclipses happen when the sun, earth, and moon align with the earth in the middle—an important distinction from solar eclipses, which occur when the moon comes between the Sun and March Lunar Eclipse Thursday – Friday, March 13 – 14 earth, and we are briefly shrouded in darkness like we were last year on April 8. Since the earth is bigger than the moon, it can completely block the sun’s light from reaching the moon during a lunar eclipse, resulting in the ominous shadow we see creeping across its surface.
But wait, you may ask, wouldn’t that mean we’d get a lunar eclipse during each full moon? Not quite! The moon orbits the earth at a slight angle, meaning the sun, earth, and moon don’t perfectly align every month. That’s why there hasn’t been a lunar eclipse since 2022.

This year, however, the odds were in our favor. The March 13 eclipse is the first of two total lunar eclipses this year, with the second happening the night of Sunday, September 7. So mark your calendars and prepare to
take in this mesmerizing celestial event!

March Lunar Eclipse
March 13 – 14, 2025