Lunar Eclipse October 2013: Watch Live Streaming Tonight

Watch as it happens tonight! The October 2013 partial lunar eclipse comes our way on Friday evening.

Thanks to SLOOH, we can all see the event happen live online. The Internet-based space-tracking service is broadcasting the eclipse with its robotic telescopes on the Canary Islands (map) starting at 4:30 p.m. EDT (23:30 UT). We are embedding the video streaming below.

Will the lunar eclipse be visible in your location? Check out the map below.

Watch live eclipse steaming:

When is the best time to watch?

The entire duration of the eclipse will be 4 hours and 10 minutes, commencing at 5:45 p.m. EDT (21:45 UT) tonight.

The most readily visible part of the eclipse, however, will be at 7:50 p.m. EDT (23:50 UT), when Earth’s shadow is at its deepest/maximum coverage—a bit more than 75 percent of the lunar disk.