• On Monday, June 4, the southern part of the full Strawberry Moon passes right through the northern part of Earth's dark umbral shadow, to stage a partial eclipse of the moon visible in the Americas, Australia and Asia. The partial umbral eclipse lasts a little over two hours from start to finish. At mid-eclipse, about one-third of the moon's disk will be covered over by the Earth's dark umbral shadow.
• A very faint penumbral eclipse precedes and follows the dark umbral eclipse, even though most people won't even notice the penumbral phase. The eclipse times listed farther down in this article refer to the umbral (dark) eclipse.
• Why isn't there an eclipse at every full moon?
• Depending on where you live on the globe, the eclipse will either happen in the wee hours before sunrise on Monday, June 4 - or in the eve

SOHO spacecraft view on June 2, 2012. Sun is in center of field of view, hidden behind occulting disk. Venus is the brighter object to the left of the sun. Mercury is the fainter object to the sun's left. See the image insdie to understand the track of Venus from one side of the sun to the other in the coming days. Image Credit: NASA

ning hours after sunset on Monday, June 4. Before we tell you which places worldwide are in a position to watch the June 4 umbral lunar eclipse, we list those that are not: Far northern and northeastern North America, eastern South America, Greenland, Iceland, the Arctic, Europe, Africa and western Asia. (See worldwide map below.)

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