Olympic Peninsula – Coming up on the night of Thursday, March 13 into the morning of March 14, as most US citizens are asleep, the full moon will slide into the Earth’s shadow producing what is expected to be a spectacular total lunar eclipse.

Watch for an orange tint on the moon’s surface during totality. Astronomers say it’s refracted sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere.

March’s full moon is called the Worm Moon. Some Native Americans named the last full moon of winter the Worm Moon because of the trails of earthworms that appeared in the thawed ground. The Old Farmers’ Almanac began publishing the names of full moons in the 1930s, and included the Worm Moon.

Here in the Pacific time zone, which will have moved into Daylight Savings by then, the eclipse will begin at 10:09 PM on the night of March 13, the full eclipse will be at 11:58 PM, and it will all be over at 1:47 Friday morning.