… Saudi Arabia witnesses the astronomical phenomenon "did not happen"

10h05 19.01.2019(Updated 10:34 on 19.01.2019) Copy link

Majid Abu Zahra, chairman of the Jeddah Astronomical Society, revealed that most of Saudi Arabia would experience a partial solar eclipse before sunrise on Monday, January 21, 2019.

According to the newspaper "Sabd", Abu Zahra pointed out that in general, this lunar eclipse is a "total eclipse". You can see all the steps of the globe in North America, South America, in the East Pacific Ocean and in the West Atlantic and at maximum In the macro problem for an hour and two minutes, and in part seen from Central and East Africa and Asia.

"The lunar eclipse rate will vary in Saudi regions, where the northern regions will be the most exotic, while the rest of the Arab region will see this eclipse partially in Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Central and Eastern Syria, and in Eastern Sudan, Comoros and Yemen, while the eclipse will be seen entirely in Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, the far west of Sudan, west of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.

"The total eclipse of the moon coincides with the occurrence of the moon at the closest distance to Earth or the so-called giant moon, where the size and light of the virtual diameter will be larger than most other satellites. "

"One of the benefits of this eclipse is that observers from central and eastern Libya, Egypt, Western Syria, Palestine and Lebanon will be able to see a view very rare, where the sun is watched during its sunrise and the moon is completely dissolved at the same time above the horizon, without the possibility of phenomenal and heavenly geometry. "

He explained that when the eclipse between the sun and the moon at 180 degrees completely in the sky, so it is impossible to see them together in the sky, but that this happens because of the atmosphere around of the globe, which will be observed the image of the sun and the image of the moon appear above the horizon by refraction, observers on Earth can see the sun for a short time before & sun; It does not really shine.

Unlike the solar eclipse, the lunar eclipse does not require any special monitoring device, it is very safe and presents no danger when it is seen at the naked eye and for better vision with the help of a small telescope or a telescope.

The lunar eclipse occurs two weeks after a partial solar eclipse occurred on January 6, 2019.