With clear skies, the eclipse will be visible in North and South America. Schaefer predicts the moon will be a spectacular brick red. However, during total eclipse, you get these beautiful colors. Eclipse parties planned Many star clubs, planetariums and observatories intend to seize on the broad appeal of the eclipse with parties for mass watching. In the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, hundreds are expected to crane their necks from a downtown parking lot next to a science museum.
Most people are likely to take a peek from back yards or apartment windows.
Getting away from ambient light is also a good idea. The familiarity that people feel for the moon heightens the sense of wonder when it steps unaccountably behind a curtain, sky watchers say. While people today view both solar and lunar eclipses with excitement, in centuries past they were greeted with terror. Sky watchers have been able to predict eclipses for more than 2000 years. An almanac with those dates probably saved the life of Christopher Columbus in Jamaica, where on his fourth voyage to the new world, local residents were getting tired of feeding his shipwrecked crew.