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The Moon has presented the longest total eclipse of the 21st century in spectacular red. At temperatures of at least 30 degrees, in the middle of summer, many people in Germany have tried to the naked eye, using binoculars or a telescope, to pursue the extremely rare sky show. Many observatories, planetariums, astronomical associations and research institutes invite you to watch the show.
The total lunar eclipse of about 103 minutes was followed by a brilliant and tall Mars like 15 years ago. "For the people who live right now, it's a unique event," said Sven Melchert, director of the Friends of the Stars Association in Heppenheim
A lunar eclipse only occurs when the moon is full. The moon is completely immersed in the shadows that the sunlit earth projects into space.
Astronaut Alexander Gerst, who is currently on the ISS space station, had a particularly good vision
. Event depending on the region at around 21 hours. The total lunar eclipse then began around 9:30 pm and lasted until about 11:15 pm
Meanwhile, the slice of the full moon shone copper-to-orange. The total lunar eclipse was unusually long with a total duration of a little less than a quarter of an hour. There will be a lunar eclipse of three more minutes on June 9, 2123.
In the north, west and south, the view of the two glowing celestial bodies was quite good in many places. The German Meteorological Service has reported isolated clouds for these areas. Less fortunate had distant parts of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. There, many watched storm clouds instead of a starry sky. Over Berlin, clouds were hanging. Always on the edge of the Alps, the spectacle of the sky was not everywhere.
Skygazers also detected the Mars planet below the darkened moon. He is now close to the earth and therefore shines particularly well.
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The lunar eclipse XXL – explained in the video:
The most important facts of the lunar eclipse at a glance:
- What's coming it to the moon?
A lunar eclipse occurs only at the full moon when the sun, the earth and the moon are aligned. The moon is completely immersed in the shadows projected in space by the sunny land.
On Friday, the complete eclipse phase lasted an hour and 43 minutes, the longest of the century. This duration is surpassed only during the lunar eclipse of June 9, 2123 – about three minutes.
- Why does the moon shine from a coppery red to orange in the shadow of the earth?
While the shortwave blue light waves of the sun's rays are completely dispersed by the Earth's atmosphere, the long-wave red light is refracted and directed towards the moon. As a result, the moon glows reddish and is also called the blood moon.
- Why is Mars so bright and so red?
Mars is as close to Earth as it is rare at the moment. It's only about 58 million kilometers away from our planet. This is the minimum distance. Unlike Earth, Mars does not need it on its orbit farther around the Sun, but nearly two years. When the Earth exceeds Mars on the inner orbit and Mars is relatively close to the Sun, it is particularly bright in the sky and relatively large. Finally, Mars was so close to us 15 years ago
- Is this really an event of the century?
A total lunar eclipse is not an absolute exception, statistically speaking, it can be observed every two or three years – but not always full length The peculiarity of this total lunar eclipse was that it took so long . The moon was completely in the shadow of the earth for more than an hour and forty minutes.
A total lunar eclipse of the same length and exactly the same state of Mars occurs on average every 105,000 years, as Stefan Krause's calculations of the Volkssternwarte Bonn show. At the same time as the ISS flies over the sky, there will probably never be another one again.
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