The longest total lunar eclipse of the century will take place on Friday

The total eclipse begins at 9:30 pm and lasts until 23.13. Probably the moon will have a beautiful red color.

– The Friday eclipse will be particularly impressive, both because of the duration and because the moon is low, "says Anne Mette Sannes, the scientific mediator who, along with astrophysicist Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard runs the site astroevents.no

Mars particularly tall

According to Sannes and Ødegaard, it will take 105 years the next time such a lunar eclipse will occur in the long run.

The possibilities of a red moon depend on the conditions in the atmosphere. Large amounts of ash and soot particles can make the moon less bright without the red color.

On Friday's total eclipse buffer, the Mars planet emerges just under the moon – something that astroevents.no drivers do not consider to be the culmination of the event. "This night, Mars is closer to us than she was at age 15, and the brightness is so important.We will live something as exclusive as a moon." red, which lies directly across the red planet, says Ødegaard.

The Space Station hovers over the sky

Mars is not the only planet that will be visible Friday night.

Pål Brekke, solforsker and senior advisor for the coordination of space research at the Norwegian Space Center, said that Saturn is equally applicable in the sky show and is visible near the moon. At the same time, he draws the International Space Station as an additional attraction.

– Rome's train station is about 350 kilometers above sea level and travels 27,000 kilometers at the hour. He appears in the sky around 0.08 Saturday and takes three minutes to cross the sky before he enters the Earth's shadow, "says Brekke to NTB.

– Seems like a very strong star Sliding slowly over the sky Breaking the space station, which is also visible in the days before the total eclipse.

See the south

Rome's train station is visible only in the south of Norway on Friday.This is the same with the total lunar eclipse.

– This is because the moon is too low in the sky.The closer we get to the north, the more Horizon is near during the total eclipse and further north the moon will only be visible during the partial eclipse, explains Brekke

The partial eclipse implies that the shadow of the earth moves on the end moon, then disappear around 0.19 How much of the eclipse that becomes visible where you are, depends on when the moon is Stay tuned The eclipse is fully visible to the naked eye, although you can see more details with binoculars.