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Excitement in the skies coming in April (click here)

Mar 28, 2014

NEW ORLEANS —Look up at the moon April 15, and be prepared to see it turn red.
The total lunar eclipse will be visible to all in the United States that night.
The excitement begins around 2 a.m. Central Daylight Time. This is when the Earth will move between the sun and the moon. The Earth’s shadow will slowly move across the face of the moon for about 78 minutes from start to finish. 
The shadow of Earth will completely cover the moon, and you might expect the moon to be dark, but that’s not the case. The sun is so large, that the Earth cannot block out the light of the sun completely.
A red glow surrounds the Earth, and that red light scatters, causing the moon to appear red....