Highlights Reel
Our March 2–3 live stream featured images of totality from across the USA, Australia, and New Zealand.
Last of Three Total Lunar Eclipses in a Row
Blood Moonbecause of the rusty red hue it takes on during totality.
This will be the final total lunar eclipse in a row of three. The first was in March 2025, and the second was is in September 2025.
The next total lunar eclipse won’t be until the December 31, 2028–January 1, 2029 New Year’s Blood Moon Eclipse.
We’re Back on the (Desert) Road
For the 5th time in 4 years, the mungfali.galihkartiwa07.workers.dev mobile observatory is setting up in the USA.
Steffen Thorsen is our CEO and Chief Eclipse Chaser; Konstantin Bikos is our Lead Editor, and an old pro at road trips across the desert.
Steffen and Konstantin flew to Southern California with their telescopes and streaming equipment. After studying weather forecasts across the region, they’ve decided to set up their base in Yucca Valley, a town in the Mojave Desert about 160 km (100 miles) east of Los Angeles.
Spreading the Word
On February 19, as part of the build-up to this eclipse, our colleagues Anne Buckle and Renate Mauland-Hus were invited back onto “God Morgen Norge”—Norway’s most popular morning TV show.
Although this eclipse is not visible from Europe, the continent does have a big solar eclipse coming up in August.
Anne and Renate were also able to update viewers on the Artemis II Moon mission, which might be launching four astronauts on a “flyby” around the Moon soon after the March 3 lunar eclipse.
Communicating Astronomy from the Pacific
We’re excited to be partnering once again with Preethi Krishnamoorthy and Avinash Surendran, aka the Starry Knights.
Preethi and Avinash are professional astronomers based in Hawaii—they both work at Keck Observatory , which hosts two of the largest telescopes ever built.
They’re also passionate about communicating astronomy to the public: In the world of astronomy outreach, they go by the name of the Starry Knights .
We worked with Preethi and Avinash at the lunar eclipses of May 2021, November 2021, and November 2022, when they sent us beautiful images from their base in Waimea on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Our 9th Collaboration with Perth
In Perth, Western Australia, the total phase of this eclipse will begin at 19:04 local time. That’s 7:04 pm on a late summer’s evening, about 20 minutes after the Full Moon has risen.
Our long-time partner Matt Woods of Perth Observatory is hoping to send us a telescope feed of the eclipsed moonrise—although that’s never easy! The closer an astronomical object is to the horizon, the more atmosphere we have to look through, and the greater the chance of clouds.
But if anyone can do it, it’s Matt, a highly talented and experienced live streamer. We recommend Matt’s captivating TEDx talk , where he recounts his experience at the 2023 total solar eclipse in Western Australia!
Under the Dark Skies of Western Australia
Matt Woods will once again be working alongside Roger Groom, one of the leading members of the astronomy community in Western Australia.
Roger has been an astrophotographer for over 25 years, and an astrophotography workshop facilitator for over 10 years. He also runs a dark-sky astronomical facility , and has worked on research projects including Pluto and other trans-Neptunian occultations, comet nuclei behaviour and composition studies, minor-planet photometry, and supernova discovery and follow-up.
From the Desert of New Mexico
The last time John Williams collaborated with us, he had an epic battle against the clouds and the wind—as you can see from this interview we did with him during the March 2025 lunar eclipse.
John will be setting up his telescope in New Mexico again on March 3, and hoping for more helpful conditions this time.
We’ve been working with John for many years, finally getting to meet him in 2023 when our paths crossed during preparations for the Great American Annular Eclipse. We were setting up our operating base in Roswell, New Mexico; John was passing through on the way to his observing site in Texas.