NATIONAL NEWS - A total full moon eclipse which will be viewable from multiple continents including most of Africa, according to NASA, is happening on 27 July.
This lunar eclipse will be primarily visible from the world’s Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand).
The local times of the eclipse are available at TimeandDate.com (remember to put your place or country in the search box).
The eclipse will take place at or around midnight for Madagascar and the Middle East. Europe and Africa will view it sometime between sunset and midnight on 27 July, whereas most of Asia, Indonesia and Australia will view it in the morning – sometime between midnight and sunrise on 28 July.
Two partial solar eclipses – an eclipse never comes alone
Lunar eclipses occur when the sun, Earth and the moon line up casting the earth’s shadow on the moon. A partial eclipse precedes and follows the lunar eclipse, each time lasting 1 hour and 6 minutes. Two partial solar eclipses will take place on 12 July and 11 August 2018. From start to finish, the moon takes nearly four hours to cross the earth’s dark umbral shadow. The umbra is the darkest part of Earth’s shadow. From within the umbra, all direct sunlight is blocked by Earth as in the case of a total lunar eclipse.
