# An Ominous Pi Day Miracle! - Total Lunar Eclipse

2025-03-07 - [53] 12:22

Pi Day in the United States (because of our strange date format of MM/DD/YYYY [medium-small-large] compared to pretty much the rest of the world [small-medium-large] or [large-medium-small]) is March 14th, as it is the 3rd month and the 14th day of that month, so 3/14 (ignoring the year). Math nerds tend to enjoy the day by eating some pie, while some folks like to argue about whether we should have Pi Day at all or whether we should accept Tau as our one true day of eating a pie. This post isn't about Pi vs Tau. Instead it's about the Lunar eclipse that will be happening soon!

My site has all of the Solar and Lunar eclipses from 1901 through 2200 written out, which can be found at the following link:

Sun and Moon Calculations

Well, in my neck of the woods, this coming total Lunar Eclipse will be visible! As I will be under the Central Daylight Time timezone (CDT, which is -0500 UTC) at that point, the parts of the Lunar eclipse for me will be the following:

- Penumbral Eclipse begins: March 13 10:59:44PM CDT
- Partial Eclipse begins: March 14 12:11:56AM CDT
- Full Eclipse begins: March 14 1:29:04AM CDT
- Maximum Eclipse: March 14 1:59:50AM CDT
- Full Eclipse ends: March 14 2:30:35AM CDT
- Partial Eclipse ends: March 14 3:47:42AM CDT
- Penumbral Eclipse ends: March 14 4:59:59AM CDT

From the points of "Partical Eclipse begins" to "Partial Eclipse ends", at least part of the Moon will be under the Shadow of the Earth, which means the part of the Moon under that shadow is shaded from the Sun, as the Earth will be in the way. From the points of "Full Eclipse beings" to "Full Eclipse ends", the entire Moon will be under the shadow of the Earth, which due to the atmosphere of the Earth will cause the Moon to appear blood red.

Notice that the full eclipse will be between 1:29:04AM and 2:30:35AM. Extending Pi out a few more digits, from 3.14 to 3.1415926, allows me to go for the date/time of 3/14 1:59:26AM. At that point, the moon will be completely red for me! In fact, we could place the rest of pi as a decimal part of the second, so 3/14 1:59:26.53589793... (I only went as far as my Pi tattoo goes around my left wrist/arm). That point of time will also be a blood red Moon (not surprising, as it just modifies the time by less than a second). Sure... it'll look like a sign that the world is about to end... but... IT'S AN OMINOUS PI DAY MIRACLE!!!

Hopefully the weather behaves Thursday night into Friday early morning.

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