{"id":1019744,"date":"2026-08-23T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:25:15","slug":"heres-when-houston-can-catch-the-almost-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-on-august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019744\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s when Houston can catch the &#8216;almost blood moon&#8217; lunar eclipse on August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon will take a dramatic dip into Earth\u2019s shadow Thursday night, turning coppery before returning to full brightness<\/p>\n<p>The Earth casts a shadow over the moon in a partial lunar eclipse that is observed Saturday, June 26, 2010,  in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP Photo\/Slamet Riyadi) (Slamet Riyadi,  AP2010)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Houston skywatchers, get ready for a celestial show. A <a href=\"https:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/5672\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/5672\/\">deep partial lunar eclipse<\/a> will be visible Thursday night, Aug. 27, with nearly the entire Moon slipping into Earth\u2019s darkest shadow.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>Partial eclipse begins<\/b> \u2014 9:34 p.m. CDT: A dark \u201cbite\u201d will start to appear on the Moon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>Peak fullness<\/b> \u2014 11:13 p.m. CDT: About 96.3% of the Moon will be inside Earth\u2019s umbra, and the shadowed portion may glow coppery or reddish.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>Partial eclipse ends<\/b> \u2014 12:52 a.m. CDT: The Moon will begin shining fully again as it leaves the darkest part of Earth\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A still image of the eclipse diagram. (NASA&#8217;s Scientific Visualization Studio)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">No special glasses are needed to watch a lunar eclipse. Find a spot with a clear view of the sky, then look up and enjoy the show.<\/p>\n<p>Start Here, Houston<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/chudspeth\/\" title=\"View Christian Hudspeth&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Hudspeth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Christian Hudspeth is a Houston native who joined KPRC 2 News in December 2025. Christian began his news career at KTRK in 2022 before moving to newsrooms in Waco, Texas (KXXV), Las Vegas, Nevada (KTNV), and now back to H-Town. He earned his BA at the University of Houston Jack J. Valenti School of Communication in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Moon will take a dramatic dip into Earth\u2019s shadow Thursday night, turning coppery before returning to full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1019745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[97207,109111,4345,109110,994,916,408099,783,358,3187],"class_list":["post-1019744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-blood-moon","tag-eclipse","tag-houston","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-partial-lunar-eclipse","tag-space","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117146939088434637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}