More than 7,000 million people can see with their own eyes this September 7, if the clouds allow it. On the night that goes from Sunday to Monday, a total moon eclipse will be visible in the middle of the earth; And this time, it has the peculiarity that this half will be just the most populous part of the planet: all Asia, Oceania, Africa and Europe can see at least part of this lunar eclipse. It is in the partial phase when the shadow of the planet shows a circular shape that denies the embankments. Hunting that partially eclipsed moon will be one of the great incentives to go out to observe this astronomical phenomenon in Spain, where it will be in a very unusual streak that extends with
In almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, the Moon will be totally eclipsed. Thus, the final part of the total eclipse will be visible during the twilight that begins with the sunset and until the totality phase concludes at 20.53 (Spanish peninsular time). Until then, Palma de Mallorca will have 45 minutes to try to see the red -dyed moon: this is how these total eclipses are manifested, in which our satellite does not disappear completely, in Madrid that phenomenon will last 18 minutes and in Oviedo it will be only 7 minutes. On the other hand, at the time of the end of the totality, the Moon will not yet come out in Galicia – except in its eastern regions -, neither in western Portugal nor in the Canary Islands, so in those territories the eclipse can only be seen as partial.
Time and tips to see the total eclipse
The National Geographic Institute facilitates on its website in the Spanish provincial capitals. Experts remember that a lunar eclipse is a phenomenon that can be observed with the naked eye, without the need for astronomical material and also without the need for protection equipment “although this is an eclipse that in Spain does not have ideal conditions of observation, because the moon has just left and is still close to the horizon – and so it is easy for the buildings, the mountains or the mist Reasons, and even more on these dates, ”says Germán Peris, cultural manager of the Planetarium of Castellón.
In Castellón de la Plana, in the eastern part of the country, it dusk before and that is why the conditions are better for the observation of this concrete eclipse. The moon is always full in lunar eclipses and, in that phase, our natural satellite comes out just when the sun is getting. Peris encourages the Spanish population to look for a point without obstacles on the horizon to the east, at sunset on Sunday and “take a sandwich, relax and start from sunset in the west ——, play to try to hunt the moon on the opposite side of the sky. As it begins to darken, it will be easier to be able to observe a light red color that characterizes a total lunar eclipse”. Under these conditions, this expert prefers to avoid the popular name of these eclipses: “The so -called ‘Blood Luna’ can arouse expectations that do not correspond to what, hopefully, we can see in Spain.”
Peris points out that, despite the difficulty of seeing such a low eclipse, “that location, near the horizon, causes the optical illusion from which the moon is much larger; and also, who has an adequate camera, can achieve spectacular photographic compositions of that eclipsed and apparently giant moon next to the landscape.” Where the location and meteorological conditions allow it, Peris concludes, “when it happens at the beginning of a summer night; and get to see it would be to put a gold brooch to the holidays, for the schoolchildren that begin the course the next day.”
Jaque to embankment
On the other end of Spain, in A Coruña, the possibilities of seeing the total eclipse are void. There, the astrophysician Borja Tosar also encourages to go out to see the phenomenon, “although in our area, when the moon comes out, it will already be in the phase of partial eclipse. Likewise, it will be something very interesting to see, because in that final time of the eclipse we will go from seeing a small moon arch – as if it were very diminishing – to see the moon completely full: it will be something similar to rewind, in the quick camera.
Tosar highlights the dynamism of that partial phase with which the eclipse concludes: “To those who approach the sky, the first times it usually impatient that everything moves so slow that it seems to be still. However, this Sunday we will have the possibility of appreciating how the moon is quickly filled; and also how it is raising, because being close to the horizon, we perceive it better”.
In the public activities of observation of lunar eclipses, this astronomical disseminator always stands out to the attendees who have before them “in the partial phase, we can clearly see that a circular and dark piece is missing: and that circular form of the shadow would be impossible if our planet was flat. And no, that would not pass that even if the land itself was circular like a currency; Explain Tosar.
An eclipse focused on Asia
There it will be seen as total and, in almost the entire continent, it will coincide in the middle of the night: it can be seen from beginning to end. More than 5.8 billion people – 71% of the world’s population – will have that full eclipse possibility, if the clouds do not cover the phenomenon. The phases of a total moon eclipse occur simultaneously in the middle of the world where at that time it is night.
The partial eclipse phase will begin at 18.27, Spanish peninsular time. Although in Spain it is still daytime, from New Zealand to Arabia, the beginning of that phase can be seen in which it seems that the full moon has given a bite. The total eclipse – when the moon is dyed red – will begin at the edge of 19.31, with the satellite on the top of the sky in the East Asian, when it is in its peak over India – while it is still low on the horizon in most of Spain. From then on, a partial farewell phase of the eclipse will begin, which will last until 21.56, when the moon will recover the appearance of a normal full moon.
They will be a total of three and a half hours of a lunar eclipse that, at least at some point in those three visible phases, only all America, and a part of the Antarctica, both the partial phases and the total eclipse phases will be lost, which will be seen as a penumbral in the east tip of South America and on the west tip of Alaska. All lunar eclipses begin and end with a phase of gloom, in which the outside of the soil of the earth slightly darkens the moon, with an effect that is too subtle to be able to appreciate it well at the naked eye.
