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This summer, the moon is a sight to behold. This Friday, its passage between the Earth and the Sun will offer to the lucky ones who are in the southern hemisphere a pretty mini-eclipse of the Sun: around 13 hours (local time), Antarctic, then Melbourne (Australia), will meet for an hour in the dark, the Moon masking part of the sun. The end of the great ballet?
No! Between the Sun, the Earth and the Moon, the big step of three continues. On your agenda, surround the date of July 27 (also a Friday), because that night, everywhere in Europe, it's another big lunar show that awaits you: a Blood Moon. The Moon will thus take on, during the time of a total eclipse, a splendid brick red color.
Enjoy it, because "since September 28, 2015, we had not seen a total lunar eclipse in Europe", explains to the French Association of Astronomy. It will also be the longest lunar eclipse of this century, with nearly 103 minutes of show.
No need to protect your eyes
This July 27, the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are going indeed to be perfectly aligned, so that the Moon will disappear in the shadow of the Earth. Around 19 hours, sit in your deckchairs, looking to the east (opposite the setting sun). Unlike a solar eclipse, no need for protection for your eyes.
From 19h13, the lunar disk – visible at 99% – will gradually lose its beautiful shine to take a slightly greyish tint: it is the sign that it enters the shadow cone projected by the Earth. Around 20:24, there will remain only a crescent end. At 21:30, our Moon will be totally swallowed by our shadow.
The lunar disc will remain visible because it will then be lit by red rays coming (ricochet) from the Earth. It will then take a nice dark red copper color until around 11 pm, then return to its normal brightness.
If you miss this beautiful "Blood Moon", know that the Moon continues its tribulations: August 11, at around 11:46 in the morning in the northern part of the globe (Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia), she will play hide and seek with the Sun again briefly
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