Partial Lunar Eclipse 2013: 'Pink' Full Moon Event Occurs Thursday

The April full moon will pass through Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse on Thursday (April 25). While the lunar event won't be visible for U.S. stargazers, moon fans can still catch the sight live online in two free webcasts.

The lunar eclipse on Thursday will mark the first eclipse of any kind in 2013, and by sheer cosmic coincidence it will occur during the April full moon, which is also known as the "Pink" Full Moon. It is the first, and likely the best, of three lunar eclipses occurring this year.

You can watch the partial lunar eclipse live on SPACE.com here courtesy of webcasts provided by the U.S-based Slooh Space Camera and Italy's Virtual Telescope Project. NOTE: Both events depend on good weather at the observing sites. The entire lunar eclipse will be visible to the unaided eye for observers in Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia and Western Australia.

"It will be a great event!" Gianluca Masi, an astrophysicist with the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory who runs the Virtual Telescope Project in Ceccano, Italy, told SPACE.com.

The first of the two webcasts will be provided by the Slooh Space Camera and begins at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). Slooh's broadcast team will be joined by solar scientist Lucie Green of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom, and feature views from the company's observatory on the Canary Islands, off the west coas

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