The night sky is serving up a cosmic treat this March, where we will get to see a full lunar eclipse.

Phenomenal Astrological Events

While both solar and lunar eclipses are not uncommon, it's still cool to be able to catch one.  This March, we will be treated to a lunar eclipse, and the entirety of the United States will get to see the full eclipse.

According to NASA, there are two different kinds of eclipses.

 There are two types of eclipses: lunar and solar. During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow obscures the Moon. During a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun from view.

We experienced a solar eclipse in April of 2024 where we got to experience totality in the Tri-State, and it was such an incredible thing to witness.  Next month we will get to experience something else that's pretty incredible, a lunar eclipse, and we should be able to see the moon glow red!

A Glowing Red Moon

The moon doesn't change in color, but it sometimes can appear in different hues of gray or even sometimes yellow or orange to the naked eye. I think that's partially why the moon is so fascinating to me, every night we look at the same moon, but every night it looks different to us.  However, during the lunar eclipse in March, we should get to see the moon glow a reddish color!

According to Time and Date, some people call an eclipsed moon a "Blood Moon" as a nickname due to its reddish glow.  But why is it red? NASA  explains:

The Moon moves into the inner part of Earth’s shadow, or the umbra. Some of the sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere reaches the Moon’s surface, lighting it dimly. Colors with shorter wavelengths ― the blues and violets ― scatter more easily than colors with longer wavelengths, like red and orange. Because these longer wavelengths make it through Earth’s atmosphere, and the shorter wavelengths have scattered away, the Moon appears orangish or reddish during a lunar eclipse. The more dust or clouds in Earth’s atmosphere during the eclipse, the redder the Moon appears.

How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse in March 2025

This March we will get to experience a total lunar eclipse, and the entire United States will get to enjoy it.  If you want to see it you'll need to look at the moon on the night of March 13th into the early morning of March 14th.   NASA has a time-stamped video that you can see so you can plan when to see totality in your own backyard, you can see that here. 

When looking at the video from NASA, it shows the moon reaching totality from 6:26 UTC 7:40 UTC when using a time converter from Time and Date I believe that should be around 1:26 AM to 2:40 AM Central time, but you may want to double-check that yourself before totally taking my word for it (I am a radio DJ after all...).