Like John Dobson always said when you need to wake up early in the morning: drink a glass of lemonade before you go to bed -- you need to wake up to rotate your telescope mirror pitch lap or take it off the mirror while making a telescope mirror. The same goes for waking up for a predawn lunar eclipse!

Set your alarms (weather permitting for before 5 a.m. Saturday morning! Our west coast gets a total lunar eclipse in the morning before dawn! My video chart shows a 12 minute totality (via USNO & S&T) but depending where you measure the deepest shadow (the umbra) some websites and most of the media are saying less than 5 minutes (THE SHORTEST ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY). (caps on purpose) So I summed up the different calculation methods here. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=2026

Regardless, get your butt out of bed before 5am PT if you can. Totality is a few minutes before 5 am until a few minutes after 5 am. Pacific. Training for August 2017!

Video of the eclipse and Whats Up for April: lots! https://youtu.be/WaTqzp43UI4

Hope we see it!

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Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up? April 4th lunar eclipse
https://youtu.be/WaTqzp43UI4