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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jessica Sansome

There's a lunar eclipse and full moon tonight - here's when you can see it

We're only ten days into the new year - and decade - but it's time for the first full moon as well as a rare lunar eclipse.

The 'Wolf Moon' will peak tonight and stargazers will get another chance to see a nighttime spectacle due to the penumbral lunar event.

It comes just a week after the the Quadrantids Meteor Shower gave us the chance to see a few shooting stars.

Back to tonight's astronomical event, the penumbral eclipse happens when the Moon passes through the Earth's partial shadow.

However, they're the hardest to spot in the sky so you're best chance of seeing it will be if the weather is clear.

The penumbral lunar eclipse will take place between 5pm and 9pm - with 7pm being the ideal time to catch a glimpse.

And the 'Wolf Moon' - which NASA says got its name "from the packs of wolves that howled hungrily outside the villages amid the cold and deep snows of winter" - will be easier to spot throughout the night providing there is good visability.

If you don't get the chance to see anything tonight, worry not.

There are three more penumbral eclipses to come in 2020, the next being in June.

And as for the next full moon, that will be in a months time on February 9 and is known as the Full Snow Moon.

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