A total lunar eclipse will make the red blood of the moon blush on Friday (July 27th), but even if the celestial show is not visible from your corner of the world, are still ways to watch the eclipse live.
The entire event will last 3 hours and 55 minutes. The period when the moon is completely engulfed in the shadow of the Earth – a phenomenon known as the totality – will last 1 hour and 43 minutes, making it the longest total lunar eclipse of this century
just by chance, it happens that the moon passes through the shadow of the Earth almost along its diameter, making it eclipse a few minutes longer than usual, "said Francisco Diego, astronomer at University College London in the United Kingdom. an email.
During the whole, which begins around 15:30 EDT (19:30 UTC), the moon will be immersed in the shadow of the Earth and will be "lit by the red light filtered by the atmosphere [Earth’s] "said Diego. For this eclipse, Diego says that observers of the sky can expect to see a "bright red-orange moon."
Skywatchers can witness the eclipse in parts of South America, the Middle East, East Africa, and Central Asia. TimeAndDate.com will present a livestream on Friday from 2:00 pm EDT (6:00 pm UTC), and the Slooh Astronomy Education website will also broadcast the event starting with the America of America. North. at 13:00 EDT (17:00 UTC), which you can watch below.
If you only want to catch the peak of the eclipse, you can tune a livestream on the mobile application of the weather channel from 16:00 EDT (20:00 UTC), but this feature is only available in the United States
If you are in the eastern hemisphere, you are in luck According to NASA, the best places to attend the celestial event Africa 's. East, the Middle East, India and Central Asia. Southern Africa and the Middle East will be able to see the whole around midnight, local time. Viewers in Central Asia will see the moon pass in the shadow of the Earth at 22:44. The sky show will be partially visible when the moon rises just after sunset in parts of Europe, West Africa and South America. In East Asia, Australia and parts of the western Pacific, the eclipse will be visible before sunrise on July 28, as the moon sets
Lunar eclipses occur up to three times per year, so if you miss the sky show, there will be other opportunities in the future. The next lunar eclipse will occur on January 21, 2019 and will be visible from North America, South America and parts of Africa, Europe and the Central Pacific. The entire period for this eclipse will last 1 hour and 2 minutes. Skywatchers in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia will also be able to see a partial lunar eclipse on July 16, 2019.
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