The Earth and the sun with celestial scripts will conspire to make a lunar eclipse.

LOS ANGELES Twill be nights before Christmas and high overhead the moon will turn brown or maybe deep red.

LOS ANGELES LALATE The Lunar Eclipse December 20 2010 is the first total lunar eclipse in three years. Anyway Im glad I do or I might have missed some.

During the evening following this years shortest day a total lunar eclipse will be visible for all of North America. From December 20 to December 21 U. But its well worth it for those hoping to catch a phenomenon that typically graces the. During an eclipse the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon.

Lunar Eclipse December 2010 Do you follow NASA on Twitter Didnt think so. When the Sun Earth and Moon are precisely aligned a lunar eclipse will occur.

Before the year ends another celestial phenomenon is bound to happen.

Watching the total lunar eclipse early Tuesday will mean spending some time in belowfreezing temperatures at unthinkable hours of the morning. Earth creates two shadows the outer. A total lunar eclipse is expected to take place in the sky on December 20 to 21 2010. 5 billion people worldwide will be able to watch when the Earths shadow creeps across the moons surface early Tuesday morning the first time in hundreds of years that a lunar eclipse will fall on the winter solstice.

Because on Monday night the night of December 2021st there will be a full lunar eclipse thats the one where the Earth blocks the Sun so the whole moon is in Earths shadow. This lunar eclipse falls on the winter solstice It has been 456 years since this last occurred. This eclipse will last 72 minutesthe Earth is durn big. It will be visible after midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 21 in.

A lunar eclipse will be in full view in North and Central America.

This shows the geometry of a lunar eclipse.