A “total lunar eclipse” is expected to take place April 15, according to the website of Fred Espenak, an American Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist who is best known for eclipse predictions.
This will be the first of two total lunar eclipses this year, and the first of a tetrad (four total lunar eclipses in series). The rest of the eclipses in the tetrad will occur on Oct. 8 this year and April 8 and Sept. 28, 2015.
On his website, Espenak writes that “the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red and more rarely dark brown to very dark gray.”
He further adds that no special filter or telescope is required to protect naked eyes like those used for solar eclipses.
However, it is currently unlikely that you could see the eclipse with the naked eye because of a grim weather forecast.
“It’s not looking real good,” says Tom Kines, senior meteorologist of AccuWeather, an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide. “Some things will change, but right now, we see lots of clouds around Monday night, maybe even some rain.”
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