In the middle of the night, I noticed the spectacular full moon through the porthole window of my bathroom. It is supposed the be a 'pink moon' but unfortunately, in North America, none of this eclipse will be visible, since the actual instant of full moon occurs on Thursday afternoon (April 25), when the moon is below the horizon. Beginning at 2:04 p.m. EDT (1804 GMT), the moon begins to meet the Earth's shadow; a little over two hours later it arrives under the middle of that shadow. By then the moon will have just risen and will be visible low to the east-southeast horizon as seen from Ireland, and will be setting over south-central Japan in the morning hours of Friday, April 26.
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Lunar eclipses occur when the moon, Earth and sun align,with the moon positioned on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun.
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