If you are up late Thursday night, you’ll be able to check out a deep partial lunar eclipse in the night sky over Windsor-Essex. Steve Pellarin, an astronomy instructor at the University of Windsor, said a bright full moon is going to scatter a lot of light in the atmosphere, almost to the point of being able to see the colors of your clothes at night. So, as the moon darkens, you’ll be able to see more and more stars up in the sky. According to Pellarin, who is also the president of the Windsor Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, viewing will begin around 10:30 p.m. and be at its peak around midnight. Onlookers will be able to see the moon turn copper red with a sliver of white light at the top. For those who are interested in astronomy, the Astronomical Society will have a booth set up at the Tecumseh Corn Fest Friday and Saturday between 4-10 p.m. “We’ll have telescopes set up to give members of the public free views of both the storms on the surface of the sun when the sun is up, and then later on, we’ll be able to look at various kinds of objects, galaxies, star clusters, things like that in the night sky. It should be really interesting,” said Pellarin.
