October 8 will mark the second total lunar eclipse of 2014. Rather than guiding you to produce a single drawing during totality, I’d like to encourage you to sketch a sequence of the entire event.

A 5,000-year-old stone cairn in Ireland may contain the world's oldest visual representation of an eclipse. In 2002, one investigator took this idea even further.

During the March 13-14 total lunar eclipse, LRO will be in darkness — either on the moon's nightside or in Earth's umbral shadow — for 5 hours, 48 minutes.

The biggest draw of this celestial event is that a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse are occurring simultaneously. In the past 10 years, there have been just nine total lunar eclipses.

Lunar scientist John Dvorak also included them in his recent book on eclipses, "Mask of the Sun," although he notes that the meaning of the carvings is "open to debate," and that "no one knows for ...