The longest total lunar eclipse of the century cast a spell on Himmelsgucker

<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mo (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = " Looking up at the sky Millions People in several regions of Germany and the world were able to admire the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century on Friday night. "The show was" conspicuously visible in most of Germany, "said Saturday a German meteorologist. There were clouds in the east and south-east of Brandenburg, clouds above Lusatia, and observers of the sky at the edge of the Alps had a limited view. and admire the world's longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century Friday night. The show was "well seen in most of Germany," said Saturday a meteorologist from the German Meteorological Service, the AFP news agency. There were therefore exceptions in the east and south-east of Brandenburg, above the Lusatian clouds. At the edge of the Alps, the observers of the sky also had a limited view

From 9:30 pm to 11:23 pm, the disc of the full moon was bathed in a reddish light. With a total duration of 103 minutes, the total eclipse phase of the moon was unusually long

It will not be until June 9, 2123, that there will be a lunar eclipse of three minutes. At the lunar eclipse, the Earth was on a straight line between the Sun and the Moon – so the full moon plunged into the shadow projected by the Sunlit Earth into the space [19659004]. The red planet is currently close to the Earth and therefore shines exceptionally nowadays.

"It's exciting to see the moon turn red – as if it's covered in blood," said Marion Rotich. looking through a telescope with his two daughters in Naivasha, southern Kenya. Near the far Lake Magadi, undisturbed by the lights of the big cities, the total lunar eclipse was particularly easy to follow.

The telescope provided the couple Susan Murabana and Daniel Chu Owen. "We have already done it at the 2016 eclipse." About 300 members of the local community came, as Mubana explains, mainly members of the Maasai ethnic group.

At the same time, more than 2,000 people gathered at the Tunis Science Museum to discover the spectacle of the sky. With reinforced binoculars, men, women and especially children stood in front of the snake telescope and were impressed by the color change of the Earth's satellite. Many Tunisians have documented the experience with their cell phone cameras.

In Berlin, dozens of people saw the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century on the Drachenberg, a hill in the west of the capital. The Sternfreunde association in Hepppenheim in southern Hesse, the largest national association of amateur astronomers in the German-speaking world, has mobilized its fans, many German observatories invited to observe. The Luna Festival – The Night of the Blood Moon took place at the Bochum Planetarium

Hundreds of people attended the century's astronomical event at the Alexandra Palace in North London. But as the clouds obscured the sky, there was no sign of the expected spectacle. The British took it with humor and accepted the hit Bonnie Tyler in 1983: "Total eclipse of the heart."

Tourists were unlucky on the beach and the rocks of Dorset in southwestern England. Tish Adams, 67, was "deeply disappointed". Instead of a blood-red moon, she could only photograph a small pink band in the sky.

On the other hand, in Rio de Janeiro, the observation of the sky was a success. "It was fine, and even better, Mars fell directly on the moon," said Talita Oliveira, 34, overwhelmed. In fact, the red planet was even visible to the naked eye.

Because the distance between Earth and Mars has decreased to 57.6 million kilometers from the average distance of 228 million kilometers. The sun-lit planet shone brightly in the night sky.