Total Lunar eclipse tonight
Lunar eclipse
The Lunar eclipse will be witnessed by sky-gazers on Thursday night but it will be visible partially in some parts of India. Piyush Pande the Director of Nehru planetarium, “The eclipse will be visible in Western India but only the beginning of the shadow as the eclipse begins in this part at the time of sunrise & setting of the moon on Thursday morning”.
The total lunar eclipse will also be visible from Arctic, Western Asia, Arabia, Africa, Europe & Americas. The next total lunar eclipse can be observed only in December 2010.
Eclipse can be observed Thursday early morning around 6.05 am when the moon enters penumbra phase. The moon will enter the shadow or the umbral phase at 7.13 am, after that it will last for 51 minutes & at 10.39 am it will move from umbral phase & will end at 11.47 am.
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