Lunar Eclipse will also Celebrate the Apollo 11 Launch Day

It’s almost like the cosmos understands that we’re about to celebrate the big space anniversary.

The Apollo 11 crew of NASA launched the mission on July 16, 1969, to land the first humans on the moon. Some of the planet will see a partial lunar eclipse fifty years later.

The eclipse action will be visible in Africa, most of Europe, Australia and parts of Asia and South America. North America is out of the running for this one.

If you can’t personally witness the shadowy fun, you can tune in online. The Royal Greenwich Observatory in the UK will live stream the eclipse at 2 p.m. Pacific.

The Virtual Telescope Project will also share a live stream of the eclipse from Rome starting at 1:30 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday. This should be a pretty view with the background of the Roman landscape. And here’s a little trivia: NASA astronaut Michael Collins, the pilot of the Apollo 11 command module, was born in 1930 in Rome.

This may be the best way to celebrate a milestone in the history of the moon.