Here's the best way to see the blood moon eclipse in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday - SFGATE
A total lunar eclipse will occur on Sunday evening, and as a full moon plunges into the Earth's dark inner shadow, its surface will turn a dark, rusty red.The view from the San Francisco Bay Area will be unusual as the May 15 eclipse begins at 6:32 p.m., before the moon rises in the east at 8:04 p.m., said Gerald McKeegan, adjunct astronomer with the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland."So when the moon rises, it already will be partially in the Earth's umbra shadow, exhibiting that familiar rusty red color," McKeegan wrote in an email.A lunar eclipse unfolds when the sun, Earth and moon align, and the moon passes into the Earth's shadow.When the moon passes fully into the umbra shadow, it turns a glowing red color and astronomers call it a total lunar eclipse