Gulf News The Bahrain sky is on a date with a shadow eclipse on Monday morning

Astronomer Mohammed Reza Al-Asfour said that the Earth would be on a date, God willing, with the first total lunar eclipse phenomenon in 2019, where the expected eclipse coincides with Badr the month of Jumada I 1440 H and will agree Sunday and Monday 20 and 21 January. "This phenomenon can be observed in West Asia, in most countries of Africa, in Europe, in North, Central and South America, in Greenland, in the Arctic and in northern Russia. ", did he declare. Among the most vulnerable areas, the bird will include North America, Central America and South America, Greenland, parts of Northern Europe, northern Russia and the Arctic, this phenomenon can be monitored end-to-end. Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania and Antarctica go beyond eclipses.

On the astronomical plane, eclipses occur when the shadow of the earth obscures the sunlight reflected by the moon and when the sun, the earth and the moon are aligned. The eclipse is in part when part of the moon enters the earth's shadow zone, in which case part of the moon's disc disappears and the earth's shadow appears on the moon. The eclipse is entirely when the moon enters its entire disk in the region of the earth, where the color of the moon in the meantime becomes dark red, called the term "bloody moon".

In the Kingdom of Bahrain and at the local time, the moon starts on Monday morning 21 January 2019 Enter the semi-terrestrial region of the hour 5:36But because of the fall of the moon at the hour 6:26 Before the Moon enters the shadow of the Earth, the rest of the lunar eclipse is not visible. A half shadow in Bahrain will be only 50 minutes from the clock 5:36 AT 6:26In this case, the moonlight darkens without the disc of the moon burning and this eclipse is also called a false eclipse. This type is not called a legal eclipse or prayer, but those who are present in regions where the eclipse is partial or total must establish the eclipse prayer according to the local time of the region where it is located. It should be noted that what characterizes this eclipse coincided with the phenomenon of the giant moon (Super MoonWhere the moon will be at the bottom and the nearest point of the Earth in its oval orbit, so the viewer will look brighter and bigger than his normal size.