Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Monday, December 20th.  The sun will rise at 8:15.  It’ll be up for 8 hours and 48 minutes, setting at 5:04.   The moon, 1 day before full, will set at 8:33 tomorrow morning.

The winter solstice occurs tomorrow, coincidentally there will be a total lunar eclipse after midnight tonight.  The eclipse will start at 1:32 a.m. when the moon will begin to slip into the earth’s inner shadow.  The moon will be completely inside the shadow at 2:40 a.m. beginning totality.  The moon should still be visible but be a dim red color.  The color and brightness of the eclipsed moon depends on the transparency of the earth’s atmosphere because it is illuminated by light being bent into the earth’s shadow by the earth’s atmosphere.  Mid eclipse occurs at 3:17 a.m..   Totality will end at 3:53 a.m. when the moon peeks into sunlight again.  The partial phase will end at 5:01 a.m.  Our next lunar eclipse won’t be until December next year.

See this NASA page.

* Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.