Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Look to the skies, South Florida!

Residents will have the chance to witness one of the year’s most striking astronomical events overnight from Thursday (Aug. 27) to Friday (Aug. 28), when a near-total lunar eclipse will be visible from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

The phenomenon will come very close to being a total eclipse because the moon will move deep into the umbra, the darkest part of the shadow cast by our planet, leaving only a small fraction still directly lit by the sun.

From Miami, the eclipse will cover about 93% of the moon—enough that, at times, it may look like a total eclipse.

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