![]() ![]() #MAY 2021 LUNAR ECLIPSE FULL#A supermoon occurs when a full Moon coincides with the Moon's closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee, and can only happen three to four times a year. This segment aired on November 18, 2021.New Delhi: The first lunar eclipse of the year started in many parts of the world on May 15 and 16, and is a supermoon as well as a blood moon. Julia Corcoran produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Peter O'Dowd. And in between them, closer to Jupiter, is Saturn.” “Now swing your gaze over to the left, do a left turn and above the southern horizon, you'll see another bright beacon. Beatty says folks can see “a brilliant beacon in the sky” toward the west right after sunset. Stargazers can use binoculars or a telescope to see the Pleiades star cluster several degrees above the moon, he says.Īnd over the next several weeks, you can see three of the four brightest planets in the sky in one full swoop - a shining cosmic coincidence. Beatty recommends locating the moon before the eclipse begins in case the sky gets hazy. Onlookers can see the eclipse with the naked eye. “To me, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses, too, are sort of a manifestation of the clockwork of the solar system,” he says. Beatty likes to watch the moon enter and leave the Earth’s shadow. There’s nothing too rare about this eclipse - but it will look amazing. The last time a lunar eclipse lasted this long was in the year 1440, he says, and the next time won’t be until 2669. The last vestige will come right before dawn at 7 a.m. Then, the eclipse will reverse and end at 5:47 a.m. If you can only keep your eyes open for a few minutes, Beatty says this is the moment you don’t want to miss. At 2:18 a.m., the first bite of the moon will be visible at the edge. In Eastern Time, the eclipse will start around 1 a.m. “But based on your time zone, it'll be different clock time.” “Wherever you are, if the moon is in your sky when this eclipse takes place, it's all happening for everybody at the same time,” he says. Because it’s almost a total eclipse, the moon should take on a reddish color. ![]() That’s right, this eclipse will cover 99% of the moon’s area and 97% of its diameter, Beatty says. “That's the 1% of the moon's disk that didn't make it inside this umbra, the dark core.” “The bite will get bigger until there's just a little sliver left on the bottom of the moon,” he says. ![]() Observers can tell the moon is moving into Earth’s shadow as the bite gets bigger. This “slow-motion event” could last for several hours depending on how clear the sky is, Beatty says.ĭepending on the location, earthlings may first notice some dinginess on one side of the moon, like a bite was taken out of it. “The moon is almost but not quite going to be completely within that dark core.” “There's an outer faint shadow and then a really dark core,” he says. The moon goes dark as it passes through Earth’s shadow, Sky & Telescope senior editor Kelly Beatty says. Weather permitting, this eclipse - the longest lunar eclipse in almost 600 years - should be widely visible across North America.ĭuring a lunar eclipse, the Earth finds itself between the sun and the moon. If you stay up very late tonight, you'll get rewarded with a near-total lunar eclipse. The eclipse of the moon progresses on May 26, 2021, in Santa Monica, California, on its way to the "Super Blood Moon" total eclipse. ![]()
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