A deep partial lunar eclipse will be visible across much of the Americas Thursday night, reaching roughly 96 percent coverage at maximum, NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio said.
The eclipse will begin at 9:34 p.m. Central Daylight Time and reach its maximum at 11:13 p.m. CDT, the studio said.
NASA said that at the moment of greatest eclipse — 4:13 a.m. Universal Time on Aug. 28, 2026 — about 96.3 percent of the Moon’s disk will lie within Earth’s umbra, the darkest part of the planet’s shadow.
The agency said viewers in the Mid-South should have good viewing conditions in most areas, though clouds may linger over northeast Mississippi. NASA noted that the event will occur on the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones.
Jon Ross Myers is the executive editor and publisher of the Mississippi News Network, Mississippi's largest digital only media company. He can be reached at editor@tippahnews.com
