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*Moonset Mag: The fraction of the moon's diameter within Earth's umbral shadow at moonset rounded off to the nearest percent. Then again, sighting a selenelion might be a problematic feat.
So, depending on the clarity of your sky, you might have up to roughly 10 to 15 minutes before sunrise for the sky to still be dark enough, and the moon to be high enough above any horizon haze for it to be clearly visible. And keep in mind that this holds only for the uneclipsed portion of the moon. You might, however, be able to mitigate the effects of a brightening sky somewhat by using binoculars or a telescope.
If the moon is totally eclipsed prior to sunrise, you probably are going to have to scan the western horizon with binoculars as the twilight brightens in order to still detect some semblance of the moon, somewhat resembling a very dim and eerily illuminated mottled softball.For those portions of the United States and Canada a few hundred miles or so inland from the Eastern Seaboard, the moon's emergence from the umbra somewhat later should be well seen.
Farther west, across the central Great Lakes down through the Deep South to the Gulf of Mexico, the moon will appear to be notched on its lower right side by the shadow. Going still farther west, the moon will go down"full" but assiduous observers from much of Wisconsin, Iowa, the western portion of Missouri, eastern Oklahoma into central Texas might still be able to detect a faint penumbral stain on the moon's lower right limb if the western horizon is haze-free.
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