Kaua‘i to see blood moon total lunar eclipse March 2-3, peak 1:33

Kaua‘i experienced a total lunar eclipse, commonly called a blood moon, overnight March 2 into March 3, 2026, with the event reaching its peak at 1:33 a.m. local time and registering a maximum magnitude of 1.150, according to Timeanddate’s Kauai County timeline. Timeanddate lists the event as beginning at 10:44 p.m. on March 2, ending at 4:23 a.m. on March 3, and running 5 hours, 39 minutes in total, and notes that all times on its page are local time.

Local coverage and guides used slightly different timeframes for the main phase of the eclipse. Honolulu Magazine described the phenomenon for Hawai‘i as occurring “on Tuesday, March 3, from 1 to 2 a.m.,” and a separate Honolulu Magazine snippet states, “The total lunar eclipse will start at 1:04 a.m. on March 3.” Timeanddate’s maximum at 1:33 a.m. sits within Honolulu Magazine’s 1–2 a.m. window; Timeanddate’s 10:44 p.m. begin corresponds to the earlier partial phases that precede totality. A KHON2 viewing guide fragment in the supplied material notes that “the partial eclipse began late on the” night, though the KHON2 excerpt is incomplete in the material provided.

Observers in Hawai‘i and across the Pacific saw the same basic astronomical mechanics described in Honolulu Magazine and Space: Honolulu Magazine explained that “a total lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth and moon line up so the moon is fully within the umbra, or the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow. During the eclipse, only red light reaches the moon through the edges of the Earth’s atmosphere, making it appear reddish, which is where the name ‘blood moon’ comes from.” Space added the visibility context: “On March 3, 2026, a total lunar eclipse will be visible across the night side of Earth, with the best views from Australia, the Pacific, and the western half of North America,” and identified the Pacific as the event’s epicentre, where the eclipse is overhead around midnight early on March 3.

Visual resources noted in the coverage included a Timeanddate animation showing the eclipse stages for Kauai County and photography credited in Honolulu Magazine to Aaron K. Yoshino, listed as “Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Pc Aaron K Yoshino” and “Photo: Aaron K. Yoshino.” Honolulu Magazine’s longer “Look Up for the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse Late Monday Night Into Tuesday Morning” package included promises of viewing and photography tips, but the supplied excerpts did not contain the full tip text.

Timeanddate’s Kauai County listing also catalogs upcoming lunar events visible locally: a partial lunar eclipse on Aug 27, 2026; a penumbral eclipse on Aug 16, 2027; a partial eclipse on Jan 11, 2028; a penumbral listing on Jul 6, 2028 (with a table row also labeled Partial Lunar Eclipse worldwide); and a total lunar eclipse on Dec 31, 2028. Timeanddate’s page carries the copyright line “© Time and Date AS 1995–2026” and a note that its date and path links lead to local and global details.

The records supplied show consistent overall timing for Kaua‘i’s viewing window while leaving a small discrepancy in how sources label the start of totality: Timeanddate provides a full begin-to-end timeline with a maximum at 1:33 a.m., Honolulu Magazine frames the principal totality between about 1 and 2 a.m. with a 1:04 a.m. start cited in one excerpt, and KHON2’s guidance in the supplied material is truncated. Timeanddate and Honolulu Magazine together provide the clearest set of local times and the Hawaiian term pouli ka mahina appears in Honolulu Magazine as the local name for a lunar eclipse.