Lunar eclipse montage Montage of 11 photos of the lunar eclipse of October 28th, 2004, from Uruguay with a 500mm at f/8 using Kodak Gold ISO 100. Image credit: Eduardo Manuel Alvarez

A total eclipse of the Moon takes place on the evening of Tuesday 28 August. The Moon starts moving into the Earth's shadow at 6:51 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) and is full immersed in the shadow at 7:52 pm. Totality is over at 9:23 pm and the eclipse ends at 10:24 pm. For people in the eastern half of Australia the whole eclipse is visible while for people in the west the eclipse starts with the rising of the partially eclipsed moon. People in the westernmost parts of Western Australia have the dramatic sight of the reddened totally eclipsed Moon at moonrise.

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NOTE: there is a slight error in the factsheet for the beginning of totality in SA and NT. The time should read 7:22 pm. (Thanks Rob!)