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The October 8th, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse

That second -and last of that year- eclipse of the year is a total lunar eclipse, the October 8th, 2014 total lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse if a fine show worth the observation, with Moon progressively occulted and darkened by Earth's 'umbra,' giving a deep sense of the astronomical scales of the Universe and the large events which may occur there. for more about Moon eclipses, theoretically, see our tutorial: Moon Eclipses

Moon during that total eclipse will transit very close to the northern edge of Earth's umbra, which makes that a clear gradient of luminosity will exist between the northern and southern parts of the eclipsed Moon. The entirety of the total eclipse will be seen from the northwestern part of northern America down to New Zealand and easternmost Australia, as the Russian Far East or northern Japan will also be concerned. Areas either part of that either will have the eclipse by moonrise, like from India to southern Japan and Australia, or the eclipse by moonset, like in South America or northern America (the northwestern regions excepted). No eclipse is extent from Iceland and the mid-Atlantic Ocean to most of Iran and southern Africa. Uranus interestingly is lying very close to occulted Moon at the time of greatest

The eclipse's main data are the following (data as of October 2013, NASA Eclipse Web Site). for more about how to observe a lunar eclipse, see our tutorial 'Observing a Moon Eclipse':
- umbral magnitude (fraction of Moon's diameter immersed in the umbra at greatest): 1.1659
- greatest eclipse: 10:54:36.2 UT
- eclipse duration (penumbral): 05h18m10s
- eclipse duration (umbral): 03h19m33s
- eclipse duration (total): 00h58m50s
- eclipse contacts (in UT): P1 (penumbral eclipse begins) at 08:15:33, U1 (umbral eclipse begins) at 09:14:48, U2 (total eclipse begins) at 10:25:10, U3 (total eclipse ends) at 11:24:00, U4 (umbral eclipse ends) at 12:34:21, P4 (penumbral eclipse begins) at 13:33:43

see a .PDF map for the October 8th, 2014 total lunar eclipse (path of the Moon within the Earth's umbra and map of the visibility of the eclipse worldwide). map courtesy NASA Eclipse Web Site

. for more about this eclipse and for more about solar and lunar eclipses generally, you may see at NASA Eclipse Web Site