If clouds don’t get in the way in Indiana, you will be able to see a reddish “blood moon” just after midnight early Friday morning, March 14. The earth will pass directly between the sun and the moon late Thursday March 13 and early morning Friday March 14. This will cause the light from the sun to be partially blocked by the earth and put on quite a lunar display for much of the western hemisphere on earth to see.
You and your family will be able to see this display without special equipment but binoculars or a small telescope may enhance the experience.
Totality, or the “blood moon” will last about 65 minutes. The reddish hue on the moon is caused by sunlight passing through the earth’s atmosphere on its way to the moon. Much of the sun’s light will be blocked by earth and cannot reach the moon during the lunar eclipse. The reddish color is caused by the same principle that often causes a red sunset. The longer wavelengths of red light from the sun will shine on the moon during the eclipse while the shorter green, yellow and blue wavelengths are scattered into space, missing the moon so these colors do not reach the moon, and not reflected back to earth from the moon’s surface.
The last time this has happened was November 19, 2021 and the next lunar eclipse will be on September 8, 2025 visible in east Africa, Asia and Australia, and on March 3, 2026 in Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Pacific and parts of North America.
March 14, 2025 will be an ideal time to see a lunar eclipse in Indiana, weather permitting. Clinton, Boone and Carroll County Daily News will follow the weather for you to see if we will luck out on having minimal cloud cover.
- Begins: Thursday March 13 at 11:57 PM EDT
- Maximum: Friday March 14 at 2:58 AM EDT
- Ends: Friday March 14 at 6 AM EDT
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