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[[underline]]Wednesday, December 29, 1982 / B5[[/underline]] [[image of a human's right eye with stars, a comet, and the planet Saturn depicted in the pupil]] [[underline]]SKYWATCH[[/underline]] One of an occasional series to keep you looking up, with information from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Set your clock for 4:50 tomorrow morning and gaze westward if you want to catch a total lunar eclipse that astronomers predict will be spectacularly colorful. (If you're tempted to sleep through it, be aware that the next TLE won't be visible here until 1989.) The lunar light show begins at 4:50 a.m. EST when the moon will begin to enter full shadow. "Totality"–as the scientists say–will begin at 5:58 EST and will last until 6:59 EST. The moon will leave the shadow of the Earth at 8:07 a.m., but since it will set here at 7:35 a.m EST, the final stages won't be visible in this area. The moon never completely disappears during a TLE because the sun's rays bend and refract as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere. This causes the moon to appear variously colored. The colors could be particularly spectacular this year, as the result of volcanic ash in the atmosphere, courtesy of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, El Chichon in Mexico and perhaps Galuggung in Indonesia. [[end of page]]