This Saturday will be the last in a series of three lunar eclipses visible from Australia in 2014/15 and so Mount Burnett Observatory will be open for the night (weather permitting). Totality is only around 5 minutes starting at 10:58pm, but there’s over an hour of partial eclipse from 9:16pm onwards.
Our Deep Sky Observer Braeden Borg will be keeping closer to Earth than usual to lead this session and the Mount Burnett Observatory will be open from 7:30pm onwards.
The BoM is forecast is promising so keep your eye on their Melbourne forecast and also Skippy Sky (click the Melbourne link at the top to see a closer view)!
Skies forecast for #LunarEclipse tonight. Cloudy in E, improving in Gippsland. Clear in west & Melb, increasing in SW pic.twitter.com/Yx0fzICBOd
— BOM Victoria (@BOM_Vic) April 3, 2015
This is the last total lunar eclipse visible from Melbourne until early 2018 so don’t miss it!
Having a wonderful time at @MBObservatory with very patient Braeden :) #lunareclipse pic.twitter.com/2dXwc3yIUm
— DoYouBelieveInDog? (@DoUBelieveInDog) April 4, 2015
