Total lunar eclipse, today at 08:17 UTC

Today, Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at 8:17 UTC, will be the maximum total lunar eclipse. As the lunar ephemeris service programming in this page is not yet finished, you can see the event information in astronomia.org. This page give these ephemeris:

Contacts Day UTC Time
Initial contact with the penumbra 21 05:29.4
First contact with the umbra 21 06:32.6
Beginning of totality 21 07:40.8
Middle of eclipse 21 08:17.0
End of totality 21 08:53.2
Last contact with the umbra 21 10:01.4
Last contact with penumbra 21 11:04.5

On the same page, you can check the area of the Earth from where it will be visible each phase of the eclipse, which will be, in all its duration, visible throughout North America, Central America and Caribbean. Unfortunately, in Spain is almost not visible.