Total Lunar Eclipse 2018: This occurs at the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century



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For 103 minutes, the earth covers the moon on July 27th. Questions and answers at a glance.


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22. July 2018, 18:13
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What exactly is happening in the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century?

On July 27, 2018, we wait for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century, at 103 minutes. The earth grows between the sun and the moon and the shadow. The shadow of the Earth then gradually causes the lunar darkening of the moon for a total lunar eclipse. Here is the time:

  • to 20:24 [CET] Central European Summer Time (CEST), according to the US NASA Space Agency, the moon enters into the shadow of the earth.
  • The total eclipse begins at 21:30 when it has completely entered the shadow of the Earth.
  • It ends after 103 minutes at 23:13 when the moon of the Earth again leaves the shadow of the nucleus.
  • According to NASA astronomers, this operation will be completed at 0:19 Central European Summer Time.
  The combo of images shows the different phases of the total lunar eclipse from the top left to the bottom right

What we finally see from all the show depends of course on the weather. The sky should be as free of clouds as possible.

But one thing is already certain: anyone who forgets this lunar eclipse will no longer have the chance to observe such a total lunar eclipse during this century. However, if you can wait until June 9, 2123, you will be rewarded with a slightly longer eclipse.

Why is the moon sometimes white, sometimes red and sometimes blue?

When the moon is high in the starry sky, he usually sees white. The moon always appears white when it is directly illuminated by the sun and reflects all the spectral colors that make up the sunlight.

In a lunar eclipse, the moon of the Earth can also shine in orange or even red. These colors appear when the earth grows partly or completely in the direct path of the beam between the sun and the moon. The sunlight, which is falling above the earth on the moon, must first penetrate the atmosphere of the Earth at least partially – depending on the advance of the # 39; darkness. However, the more sunlight pbades through the earth's atmosphere, the shorter its blue, violet and green shortwave fractions of the smaller particles or molecules in the atmosphere are scattered and thus virtually eliminated from the formerly white light. .

"The light that falls on the moon near the Earth's shadow has traveled the longest way," says Weihenstephan meteorologist Hans Häckel. In other words, when sunlight only briefly pbades through the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere, there is more yellow and orange shortwave that can brighten the moon accordingly.

Under very special circumstances, the Earth's grave may even appear blue, for example after volcanic eruptions or even after forest fires. "In 1883, the Indonesian volcano Krakatau burst and threw so much dust in the air that the moon around the world seemed blue and the sun was green," says George F. Spagna, a physicist at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia.

  The result is a lunar eclipse