What You Need To Know About Friday’s Lunar Eclipse


Friday’s Lunar Eclipse Will be the Longest One This Century



There’s a Blood Moon on the rise, and people around the world will be able to catch a glimpse of it on Friday July 27th, 2018, when the Moon ducks into the Earth’s shadow.

This will be the second Blood Moon (also known as a lunar eclipse) of the year. And it’ll last a whopping one hour and 43 minutes, making it the longest one this century. But the eclipse’s impressive length also means that the Moon itself will actually look a little smaller and dimmer than usual.

That’s because the Moon will be as far away as it gets from the Earth on its elliptical orbit, making the Moon appear smaller. But, the Moon also moves more slowly when it’s that far away, according to Frederick Walter, a professor of physics and astronomy at Stony Brook University. That lets it linger for longer in the Earth’s shadow and stretches out the length of the eclipse.

Folks in regions like the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and much of Europe will get a good view of the eclipse (you can check your region’s visibility with timeanddate.com’s location tool). They’ll see the Moon turn a rusty red — which is where lunar eclipses get their “Blood Moon” nickname. During an eclipse, sunlight has to filter through the Earth’s atmosphere before it can illuminate the Moon.

Meanwhile Nigeria will experience this spectacular total lunar eclipse on Friday night, which will last for one hour, Prof. Augustine Ubachukwu, has said. Ubachukwu, the leader of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, disclosed this on Thursday in an interview in Abuja. “Nigeria is set to experience a very spectacular total lunar eclipse on Friday, July 27, weather permitting. “It will be visible from 9:30.p.m. and last till 11: 220 p.m.

As said earlier, It will be the century’s longest total lunar eclipse with a whopping one hour and 43 minutes in totality. “It starts with a partial eclipse at 7:24 p.m. The total eclipse begins at 8.30 p.m., and ends at 10.13 p.m. The peak of the eclipse will occur at 9.22 p.m. The partial eclipse ends at 11.19 p.m.,’’ Ubachukwu observed. He further stressed that a lunar eclipse could occur only on the night of a full moon.

The Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow again on January 21st, 2019.

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