![]() ![]() To astrologers, Tuesday morning's package - the Northern Hemisphere's darkest day of the year, a full moon and a total lunar eclipse - is a doozie. Scientists aren't the only ones interested in the confluence. Why is this significant, besides being so rare that it hasn't happened since Galileo was living out his days under house arrest? For eclipse watchers, it means "that the moon will appear very high in the night sky, as the solstice marks the time when Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun," according to NASA. Naval Observatory’s Geoff Chester told NASA. The last time a lunar eclipse happened on a solstice was 372 years ago, in 1638, the U.S. The eclipse happens to be on the day of a solstice (first day of winter for the Northern Hemisphere first day of summer for the Southern Hemisphere). ![]() ET Tuesday, with the total eclipse starting at about 2:41 a.m., according to NASA. Weather permitting, a lunar eclipse will be visible from 1:33 to 5:01 a.m. It's not every lifetime that you get a chance to celebrate a solstice with a total eclipse of the moon.
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