Gandhinagar: The total lunar eclipse will be visible everywhere in India from 5:20 pm today. The main eclipse (all three phenomena together) would start around 6.25 pm after sunset and this can be seen in the eastern sky as the moon would have just risen by then. It would be over in an hour’s time by 7:25 pm.

Most of the world will get to see today a blue moon, a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse. Such a combination is happening for the first time after 1982 and the next is not going to occur until 2037. This is the second full moon in a month. In supermoon, the moon appears bigger by about 10 per cent or more and a little brighter than normal. A total lunar eclipse is when earth comes exactly between the sun and the moon and the earth’s shadow falls on the moon.During a total lunar eclipse, some of the sun’s rays get refracted through the earth’s atmosphere and strike the moon, which thereby takes on a low brown red glow. Therefore, it alternatively also referred to as blood moon. There may be slightly higher tides in rivers and seas due to supermoon but nothing very alarming about it.A slight sliver of the moon first gets covered in what is called the umbra, the total shadow, and slowly spreads for several minutes before receding.

Gujarat Science City has announced Lunar eclipse observation event during 6-9 pm. Kutch Astronomy Club has organized observation event at walkway behind Bal Bhawan near Khengar garden in Bhuj.

Timings of temples including Ambaji, Bechraji, Mata no Madh etc are changed today in view of lunar eclipse.

 

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