{"id":8382,"date":"2026-09-02T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/09\/02\/august-lunar-eclipse-rises-over-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:00:08","slug":"august-lunar-eclipse-rises-over-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/09\/02\/august-lunar-eclipse-rises-over-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"August Lunar Eclipse Rises Over Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/MAF_20260827_LunarEclipse_01\/MAF_20260827_LunarEclipse_01~large.jpg\" alt=\"August Lunar Eclipse Rises Over Louisiana\"><\/p>\n<p>A lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana. The lunar eclipse was visible throughout much of North and South America and part of Europe and Africa between Aug. 27-28. The Full Moon slipped through Earth\u2019s shadow on Aug. 27, continuing into Aug. 28 for some parts of the world, resulting in the lunar eclipse.  At maximum eclipse, the Moon takes on a dramatic dark, ruddy or coppery tint along the covered edge. New Orleans is home to NASA\u2019s Michoud Assembly Facility, where stages for NASA\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and structures for Orion spacecraft are produced for the Artemis missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana. The lunar eclipse was visible throughout much of North and South America and part of Europe and Africa between Aug. 27-28. The Full Moon slipped through Earth\u2019s shadow on Aug. 27, continuing into Aug. 28 for some parts of the world, resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-nasa-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}