Montreal Weather: Here’s How to Watch the Blood Moon Total Eclipse

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Better catch the moon fading on Tuesday — we won’t see a moon like this in the next three years.

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A total lunar eclipse can be seen across North America during the predawn hours. As a bonus, Uranus will now be visible a finger’s width above the Moon, resembling a bright star.

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The whole thing lasts almost an hour and a half, from 5:16 a.m. to 6:41 a.m., as the Earth passes directly between the Moon and the Sun.

Montrealers are invited to gather at Jean-Mance Park for a solar eclipse event hosted by Plateau Astro and Zenderfull. There is a telescope and your guide will also point out the planets you can see. A bit cloudy and a nighttime minimum temperature of 3°C is expected.

Known as the Blood Moon, this moon appears reddish-orange in the light of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises. At the peak of the eclipse, the Moon is 390,653 kilometers away, according to NASA scientists. If the sky is clear, you can see it with binoculars or a telescope.