place to the longest lunar eclipse of the century

The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century will make our satellite blush Friday night. The Mars planet, almost at the closest of the Earth, will be full of brilliance. This conjunction of phenomena should delight amateur astronomers.

Reunionese will be the most spoiled . The show can be seen with the naked eye, without any danger contrary to solar eclipses. Binoculars, glbades and telescopes will allow you to enjoy even more. The eclipse, which corresponds to the moment when the Moon plunges into the shadow of the Earth, will be visible, partially or totally, in one half of the world. It can be observed from Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia. But it is East and South Africa, the Middle East and India that will be the best to enjoy the show. Metropolitan France will see the end of the eclipse. It is in Reunion that the French will best admire the event.

At what time? The moon, full, will gradually return in the dark, then in the shade to be totally in the shadow, before gradually emerging. The complete phenomenon will begin at 19:14 and end at 1:28 but the show will start at 20:24, the Moon giving the impression of being nibbled by the shade. The most interesting moment of the eclipse, when the Moon will be completely in the shadow cone projected by the Earth, will begin at 9:30 pm and end at 11:13 pm

"A reddish hue". "The Moon should take a reddish hue, a bit coppery and Mars, nicknamed the 'red planet', will be next, very bright, with a slightly orange hue," says Pascal Descamps, astronomer at the Observatory of Paris-PSL. For a lunar eclipse to occur, there must be an almost perfect alignment of the Sun, the Earth and the Moon. Our planet, lying between our star and the Moon, then casts its shadow on its natural satellite.