Moon over Merritt .
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Visible in North America

The month of January is shaping up good for sky watchers. One event is a full moon on the 20th – 21st with a lunar eclipse.

Totality, or total coverage of the moon, will begin at 11:41 p.m. ET on January 20 (4:41 UT on January 21) and will last for 62 minutes. The entire 3.5-hour event—including partial eclipses before and after totality—will be visible from the Americas, Greenland, Iceland, western Europe, and western Africa. Sky-watchers in eastern Europe and eastern Africa will witness only the partial eclipse, while people in most of Asia will not see any part of the sky show.

Source :National Geographic

Kamloops start,6:36 PM January 20th,19.6 degrees. Totality begins 8:41 PM, pacific time, altitude 38 degrees.

West of the Behive Cluster

The eclipse will take place in the Cancer Constellation, a little west of the Beehive Cluster,Five hours 12 minutes from start to finish if you include the penumbral events preceding the event.

Done Kamloops time 11: 48 PM, 58.3 degrees altitude.

On this Day: January 2nd 2004

The Stardust probe flies past Comet Wild 2