On Friday, the 5th, the lunar eclipse will be visible to residents of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, the South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, according to EarthSky. website. Unlike a solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon is placed exactly between the sun and the earth, causing the cone of our planet’s shadow to fall over a certain area, as recorded in the 20th century, in a lunar eclipse the earth is placed between the moon and the sun. Like solar eclipses, lunar eclipses can be completely predictable.
According to the US space agency (NASA), the phenomenon next Friday will be a near lunar eclipse – when the moon enters the outer shadow of the Earth (Penumbra). Her perception depends on the weather. From Brazil it will not be possible to see from anywhere.
According to EarthSky, this phenomenon is expected to begin at 12:13 PM (Brasilia time), and last for 258 minutes. That is, in countries on the other side of the world it will be night or dawn.
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Partial eclipse begins: 12:13 p.m. (Brasilia time)
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Biggest Penembral Eclipse: 2:22 p.m. (Brasilia time)
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Partial eclipse end: 4:31 p.m. (Brasilia time)
According to EarthSky, in the largest eclipse, almost the entire Moon will be inside Earth’s outer shadow. “It will be a subtle dark shading on the Moon, and by the middle eclipse, only a small sliver of the Moon will fall out of this dark shading.”
“Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth is placed exactly between the Sun and the Moon, so that the cone of our planet’s shadow is projected onto the Moon and observers on the side of our planet facing the Moon see the same object obscured by the Earth’s shadow,” says Roberto Costa, professor at the Department of Astronomy at the University of São Paulo (USP).
On October 28 this year, there will be a partial eclipse visible from Brazil.
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