Consider it a prelude to spooky season if you will; A rare Blood Moon will be appearing in the night sky during the total lunar eclipse on September 7, 2025, and Singapore happens to be one of the few places in the world where you get to view this infrequent phenomenon – along with the rest of Asia and just a portion of of Australia.
Unlike a Blue Moon, which isn’t actually blue in colour, Blood Moons do have a deep orange or red hue to them. This is caused by the perfect alignment of the sun, earth, and moon during a total lunar eclipse. When the three entities are lined up in such a manner, the moon gets blocked off from the sun’s rays by the earth. The blue light from the sun, which has a shorter wavelength, bounces off the earth, while the red- and orange-toned light passes through the atmosphere and gets refracted off the moon.
According to timeanddate.com, the lunar eclipse in Singapore will begin at 11.28pm on September 7, 2025, but the total lunar eclipse will only occur at around 1.30am on September 8. This would be the best time to grab your binoculars, telescope and pro photography gear out, as it’s when the Blood Moon will be at its reddest and most strikingly visible – weather permitting, of course.
You have a viewing window of slightly less than 2.5 hours before the total lunar eclipse ends at 2.52am.
The next total lunar eclipse will happen on March 3, 2026, but there won’t be another for the next couple of years, so this one’s well worth staying up late for.
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