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Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3 Will Deliver 58 Minutes of Blood‑Red Totality

Best visibility favors the Pacific, the Americas, East Asia, Australia, with local timings and livestream options now published.

Overview

  • NASA lists totality from 6:04 to 7:02 a.m. EST (11:04–12:03 UTC), yielding roughly 58 minutes of full eclipse within a roughly 5.5‑hour overall event.
  • The eclipse is visible wherever the Moon is above the horizon across much of the Americas, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, but it is not visible from the UK and most of Europe or Africa.
  • In North America, the West Coast can watch the full show, whereas on the East Coast the Moon sets during totality and dawn light will wash out the view near maximum.
  • India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences says most of the country will see the eclipse at moonrise, with only parts of the Northeast and Andaman & Nicobar catching the end of totality (IST key times include partial start 15:20, totality 16:34–17:33, partial end 18:48); Pakistan’s Met Department gives local times of totality from about 4:05 to 5:03 p.m. PKT, peaking near 4:34 p.m.
  • For those clouded out or outside the visibility zone, livestreams are planned by Timeanddate, Griffith Observatory and the Virtual Telescope Project, and Sydney Observatory will host a public program with a Japan link; the event is safe to view with the naked eye, though weather and low horizons may limit local views.