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A smaller, more distant Moon takes longer to traverse our planet’s shadow. That’s smaller than its average diameter because this eclipse occurs only 1.7 days before the Moon reaches apogee, the point in its orbit that takes it farthest from Earth. Our satellite’s ever-changing apparent diameter at the time will be nearly 29.47'. Throughout the event, the Moon will stand in front of the stars of the familiar constellation Taurus the Bull. Greatest eclipse, at which point the Moon is as deep in Earth’s umbra as it will get, occurs at 4:02:56 a.m. The eclipse officially ends when the Moon departs the penumbra at 7:03:44 a.m. Luna enters the umbra beginning at 2:18:43 a.m. The start of the eclipse, when the Moon first touches our planet’s penumbra, occurs at 1:02:09 a.m. Unfortunately, none of the eclipse will be visible for most of Europe and Africa. Meanwhile, like North America, eastern Russia will have a view of the whole event. Inhabitants of eastern India and western China will see only some of the penumbral eclipse. South American residents will witness some of the partial eclipse, as will those throughout Australia and central and eastern China. Observers throughout North America will have the prime views, with only people along the Atlantic coast missing the Moon’s passage through the penumbra (the lighter, outer part of Earth’s shadow), which usually isn’t visible anyway. In other words, we’re lucky Luna is the star of this month’s show.Īnyone located on the nighttime side of our planet during this eclipse will catch at least some of it.
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This wouldn’t be the case if it were a partial solar eclipse (with 3 percent of the Sun’s face uncovered, you would miss out on Baily’s beads, diamond rings, and the solar corona). Observers with clear skies should be able to spot nearly all the effects that are visible during a total lunar eclipse. At mid-eclipse, 97 percent of our only natural satellite will be covered by Earth’s umbra.
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Although this won’t be a total lunar eclipse, it’ll be darn close. 19, the Sun, Earth, and the Moon (in that order) will line up and most of Moon will trek through Earth’s umbra, the darkest part of its shadow.