This Friday, Mars and the Moon will offer an incredible eclipse in the sky

" Luna will have a reddish, slightly coppery tone and Mars, nicknamed the red planet, will be at his side very bright, with a slightly orange tone," he explains.

The astronomical spectacle observes at the simplest sight without danger but with binoculars, lenses and telescopes, you can enjoy even more.

Mars Earth photo NASA.jpg

The eclipse will be visible only partially or totally in the southern half of the world: Africa, Europe, Asia and Africa. The best placed to enjoy the show will be the inhabitants of Africa, the Middle East and India

In Latin America, it will be visible at dusk from Friday dusk on the east coast of the mainland, in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina although the austral winter then to complicate the observation of the phenomenon.

For a lunar eclipse to occur there must be an almost perfect alignment of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon because when our planet enters between its star and its satellite it casts its shadow over the latter.

On Friday, the moon will be at full moon and will gradually enter the darkness, then in the shadow, where it will enter completely and then come out gradually

The complete phenomenon (including the half-light phase) will begin at 1714 GMT and will end at 2328 GMT .

The show will actually start at 6:20 pm 4 GMT, when it will appear that the moon has a shadow bite.