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Hi Sunny!

You can see it from your house, you do not need any special equipment, and I shall tell you exactly when you can see it.

The eclipse officially starts at 1:51 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time tonight. If you start looking about 1:55, you'll start to see a bite being taken out of the lunar disc. Over the next hour the shadow spreads, until by 2:52 a,m. PDT the last of the bright moon disappears into the umbra.

Once totality has started, you'll notice the eclipsed moon appear a ghostly gray with a slight reddish tinge. The total portion of the eclipse lasts 1 hour 31 minutes, and at mid-eclipse the moon should be quite dark, but never too dark to see if the sky is clear.

At 4:23 a.m. PDT the moon begins to emerge from the earth's shadow, and you'll have another hour until 5:23 a.m. PDT, when the last of the lunar disc finally leaves the umbra.

You don't need to go out of your house. All you'll need is a window with a south or westerly exposure to see the entire eclipse. If I had to pick one best time, it would be around 2:52 a.m. PDT (I think another writer may have put a transposition in his suggestion for the best time) when the last of the bright moonlight flickers out.

The Moon crossed in to the shadow of the Earth for an hour and a half in a longer-than-usual total lunar eclipse Tuesday morning.

The eclipse began in the Chicago area at 4:52 a.m. Central Daylight Time and lasted an hour and thirty minutes, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Web site.

The Moon became completely immersed in the Earth’s shadow in a much longer than usual typical lunar eclipse -- the lengthiest in seven years, the site said.

At first, there was little change. The outskirts of Earth's shadow were as pale as the Moon itself and an onlooker might not even realize anything is happening. But as the Moon penetrated deeper in to the Earth’s shadow, a startling metamorphosis occurred, the site said.

As the event began, the color of the Moon changed from moondust-gray to sunset-red. This is “totality,” and it lasted for about 90 minutes, the site said.

When to see it (the lunar eclipse) on Tuesday, August 28 2007 in USA:

2:52 a.m. PDT - Pacific Daylight Time

3:52 a.m. MDT - Mountain " Time

4:52 a.m. CDT - Central " Time

5:52 a.m. EDT - Eastern " Time

>>> Above are the start times for viewing this lunar eclipse in the U.S.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070824/480/d...

As for what the eclipse looks like... imagine the moon changing phases (i.e. full, half, quarter moon etc.) before your eyes... but you wont see all of these unless the moon was already a full moon to begin with, otherwise the fullest it will be is whatever portion of the moon is visible before the earth's shadow begins to make the moon appear smaller and smaller until totally in shadow (as it would look in a new moon) where it gets really dark outside because of lack of 'moon light' (light reflected off the moon as seen by us). With the exception that a glowing ring might be seen along perimeter and a redish-orange tinge to the moon (similar to what happens at sunrise/sunset)due to atmospheric refraction bending the light, before the earth's shadow passes by and more of the moon becomes visible again; slowly until its back in view the same as it was before the eclipse occurred.

Another way to find out what an eclipse looks like...go to you're nearest Mitsubishi dealership... j/k

Hope this helps :-)

The weatherman on our local TV station here (Seattle, so also Pacific time) suggested going outside at about 2:45 am to get a look at the eclipse when it's total.

So long as you have a clear sky, you should be able to see it just fine from where you are without a telescope. Check with **your** weatherman to see if your local forecast is favorable for eclipse-watching.

Look at the moon at 2:25 AM. No equipment necessary!