JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two weeks after a rare planet parade of seven planets, stargazers in mid-March will be treated to a total lunar eclipse.

And unlike last April’s total solar eclipse — which was only a partial solar eclipse in Northeast Florida — you won’t have to travel to see it.

And unlike a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse doesn’t require any special glasses, it’s visible over a huge swath of the earth, you’ll be able to see it for hours and totality will last for about 60 minutes.

The downside is you’ll have to be up very late — or very early, depending on your perspective — to see it.

Here’s what to know about the coming lunar eclipse and how to prepare if you’d like to watch it.

Yes. A total lunar eclipse will occur the night of Thursday, March 13, 2025. The eclipse actually starts close to 1 a.m. EDT, Friday, March 14.

If you live in the U.S., you will be able to see the eclipse starting at 12:55 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 14, according to NASA. Everything will be over by 5:05 a.m. EDT on March 14.

Totality lasts for a little over an hour before the moon begins to emerge from behind Earth’s shadow, according to Timeanddate.com. The entire eclipse will last just over 6 hours.

Yes, people in Duval, St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties will be able to see the lunar eclipse during the early morning hours of Friday, March 14. The total lunar eclipse will be visible over all of North America, South America, and western Europe and Africa.

As the moon moves into Earth’s shadow, also known as the umbra, it appears red-orange or a “ghostly copper color,” hence its name: blood moon, NASA says.

“During a lunar eclipse, the moon appears red or orange because any sunlight that’s not blocked by our planet is filtered through a thick slice of Earth’s atmosphere on its way to the lunar surface,” NASA says.

“It’s as if all the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the moon.”

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon align so that the moon passes into Earth’s shadow.

During a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon falls within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, which is called the umbra, according to NASA.

The last total lunar eclipse was in November 2022, according to NASA.

It was visible in North America, along with North and East Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arctic, and Antarctica, according to timeanddate.com.

Another total lunar eclipse will happen Sept. 7-8, but will only be visible across Europe, Asia and parts of the Americas, according to space.com. 

The next total lunar eclipse that will be visible in the U.S. won’t happen until March 2, 2026, according to NASA.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible March 29.

A solar eclipse always occurs about two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse, according to timeanddate.com.

Florida won’t be able to see it since the path of totality doesn’t include much of North America.

It will be visible on the eastern horizon for the District of Columbia and in 13 northeast states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia.

The partial solar eclipse will occur from 4:50 a.m. to 8:43 a.m. EDT on March 29, according to Space.com.

On April 8, 2024, millions of people across the United States got to see a rare total solar eclipse, the first total solar eclipse since 2017 and the last until 2044.

In Jacksonville that day, only about 64 percent of the sun was obscured, but it didn’t deter thousands of people from stepping outside that afternoon, donning protective glasses to witness the rare event that peaked at about 3:05 p.m.