The moon will turn deep shades of rusty-red throughout the more than hourlong totality, an amazing sight in the night sky.

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It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light.

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