ATLANTA — Editor's Note: The video above is from a previous lunar eclipse in 2022.
A partial lunar eclipse will darken part of the harvest or corn supermoon over north Georgia on Tuesday night. It may be tough to see thanks to some clouds. We think the clouds may break at times to give you a few glimpses of the full moon.
This supermoon is the second in a series of four that will appear in the night sky. September's full moon is also referred to as the corn moon or harvest moon, as it occurs around the time that many crops, like corn, are harvested.
Tuesday's moonrise time is 7:37 p.m. in the east sky. As the moon rises, it may look slightly bigger and brighter than other full moons, as it is at its perigee (the closest point in the ellipse) in its orbit around the earth.
The partial eclipse will begin at 10:12 p.m., when the earth's inner shadow, the umbra, covers part of the moon's disc. The maximum eclipse will only cover about 8 percent of the moon, and it will happen around 10:44 p.m. The partial eclipse ends at 11:15 p.m.
During lunar eclipses, the eclipsed part of the moon turns a hue of red. This is because the only sunlight reaching the moon passes through the Earth's atmosphere. Shorter wavelengths of light are scattered, and only the longest wavelength, red, is visible.
