'Moon Over Miami' eclipse coming Tuesday
FORT LAUDERDALE —
The last eclipse of the year promises to be a doozy: Legend has it that an event very much like it inspired a 1935 song that put Miami on the map.
"It's going to be a 'Moon Over Miami' eclipse," said Arnold Pearlstein, a former planetarium director for Miami-Dade County schools who writes an astronomy column for the Sun Sentinel.
The show will happen Tuesday, the first day of winter, when the moon is at its northernmost point, directly above South Florida, he said.
Starting at 1:33 a.m. tonight, the silvery moon will begin to appear in shades of orange. By 2:41 a.m., the moo