FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE 27TH SEPTEMBER not the 28th.

[Paul Greenhalgh President]

Just a heads up,


As I’m sure you know, there’s a total eclipse of the moon on Sunday, September 27th. Yet many people are going to miss this (notwithstanding clouds) because outfits like The Weather Network and, probably, many of the popular news media are saying this event occurs on Monday, September 28th. Because they are looking at the times using Universal or Greenwich mean time which is 7 hours ahead and not using local time. David Rodger


I’ve double checked to see when the Lunar Eclipse will actually happen here in British Columbia and it will start into its phases below the horizon and rise in the east almost if not completely in a full eclipse mode. Depending on where you are and what’s in the way on the horizon the Moon will rise above the horizon around 07:00 Pm or shortly there after on the 27th.

Look due East.

[Paul Greenhalgh President]

David also includes this information.

Hi, Paul;



Here are the key times. I don’t usually include the penumbral phase because almost no one can detect it. Furthermore, in BC, the penumbral phase and the first part of the umbral phase will be over before the moon rises.

We’re going to need a clear and unobstructed eastern horizon to see this eclipse. A lot of city residents, including myself, don’t have this, at least not from home. Too many tall buildings in central North Vancouver. By the time the moon clears the buildings, most of the eclipse will be over.



Umbral phase begins: 6:07pm, PDT

Totality begins: 7:11pm, PDT



Moon rise (Vancouver): 6:45 pm, PDT.



Mid-eclipse: 7:47pm, PDT

Totality ends: 8:23pm, PDT

Umbral eclipse ends: 9:27pm, PDT

And this is all on Sunday, September 27th.


David A. Rodger