HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – Cities in southern Kentucky and other areas in the region will be able to experience the entire scope of a partial lunar eclipse the evening of Aug. 27, with around 94% totality visible in Hopkinsville.
The partial eclipse will start around 8:23 p.m. on Thursday night, and last through 2 a.m. Friday morning. Maximum totality will be around 11:12 p.m. The current forecast for Thursday night is mostly clear skies with a low of 65 degrees.
According to NASA, during the event, the moon passes into the shadow of Earth, creating a deep partial eclipse which will change the color of the moon. At the moment of greatest eclipse, the moon’s disk is within Earth’s umbra, the central part of the shadow where the Sun is completely blocked by Earth. This part of the eclipse will be visible in the Americas (except Alaska and northwestern Canada), western Europe and western Africa.
This eclipse is a member of Saros 138, and NASA reports that the previous eclipse in this saros series occurred on August 16, 2008, and the next takes place on September 7, 2044.
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