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The sun and the moon will receive the new year (2019) with eclipses and eclipses in January, representing two phenomena of the four eclipse and eclipse phenomena observed by the inhabitants of the planet throughout the new year. said Dr. Hatem Ouda, director of the National Institute for Research in Astronomy and Geophysics, next July.
Ouda said that the sun on Sunday, January 6 with a partial eclipse will not be visible in Egypt, while Cairo will see the beginning of the lunar eclipse, which will unfold entirely and will occur on the night of 20 to 21 January, adding that the partial eclipse of the sun coincides with the moment when the birth occurs in the center. The month of Jumada I for the current year (1440), while remaining consistent with the occurrence of the total lunar eclipse with the completion of the month of Badr.
He pointed out that the moon at the top of the partial solar eclipse will cover about 72% of its disk, but that Egypt will not be able to see it because it will occur before sunrise.
The total eclipse of the moon will occur in the night of January 20 to 21, when the shadow of the Earth will cover about 120% of the moon's surface. It is visible in regions where the moon is present – the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, most of eastern Russia and the Pacific Ocean, Egypt will see the beginning of the moon. eclipse near sunrise until sunrise at 6:15, ie after the start of the total eclipse after about 10 minutes.
He explained that the beginning of the eclipse would occur at four and 35 minutes at dawn and that all the steps would take about five hours and fifteen minutes, pointing out that the lunar eclipse is an astronomical phenomenon which occurs when the shadow of the earth hides the sun reflected by the moon and that it occurs when the sun, the earth and the moon If the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are about a degree to the right, the Moon is in the center, so that the Moon casts her shadow on the Earth.
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