The golden and red illumination of the lunar eclipse makes Kenyans vibrate :: Kenya

Friday at 6pm, Kenyans began to look in the sky to see what scientists had moon eclipse. Eastern Africa was expected to be among the regions that would get the best views of the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century.

Not wanting to be left out in the historical experience, the balconies in the Nairobi apartments were filled as soon as the darkness fell. Curious onlookers struggled to get the best shot of the lunar eclipse on their cell phones.

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Brandon Ochieng, a college student told Sunday Standard that he had predicted that the earth would become crimson red, that the sky would change hue or that the sun would collide with the moon. way. "Honestly, I did not know what would happen, I knew it was a big problem, but I did not really know how it was going to happen." I heard people talk about redness, so that That's what I wanted to see, "he said.

Suddenly, around 9 pm, what appeared to be a white dot was spotted in the dark sky. At the naked eye, it looked like a small button on a black blanket, but for astronomers using a telescope, the white dot was the moon perfectly aligned with the sun and the Earth.

As time pbaded, the moon became larger and brighter, projecting a silhouette and dark shadows of people who were admiring to watch.

Residents of the coast reported that around 11:00 pm, they noticed that the whiteness changed to rusty brown. The color was intensifying and another red object could be seen in the sky.

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Scientists explain that coincidentally, Mars was also at its peak and that, with the moon, appeared two bright red objects in the sky.

At midnight, Kenyans on social media had begun to paint their timelines with pictures of what they could grasp of phenomena.

The Shadow of the Earth

The most visible images appeared to be those taken at Oloitoktok along the Kenya-Tanzania border where the moon looked like a huge red sphere.

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Others have written colorful descriptions of the eclipse, calling it a supernatural event. "I saw God in heaven, if you look closely, you see God's face in the sky," wrote a man identified as Francis Giro on Facebook.

Overall, stunning images of buildings thrown into the golden and red illumination of the sky, planes seeming to collide with the red moon have shown the wonder of nature.

The lunar eclipse lasted about an hour and 43 minutes, but the partial eclipse before and after the total eclipse made four hours of crossing the Earth's shadow.