The total eclipse will be visible at midnight and can be observed from different locations in Venezuela.
A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer-than-usual thrills for stargazers in the Americas.
The celestial event will occur from Sunday night until early Monday morning, and the Moon will be covered in the red and orange reflections of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for regarding an hour and a half, one of the longest total eclipses of the decade. It will be the first “blood moon” in a year.
Weather permitting, observers in the eastern half of North America and across Central and South America will have prime seats to watch the entire spectacle. Partial phases of the eclipse will be visible in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Alaska, Asia and Australia will be left out.
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“This is really an eclipse for the American continent,” said NASA’s Noah Petro, a planetary geologist who specializes in the Moon. “It’s going to be a treat.”
The only thing needed, he said, is “patience and eyes.”
A total eclipse occurs when the Earth passes directly between the Moon and the Sun, casting a shadow on our constant cosmic companion. The Moon will be 225,000 miles away at the peak of the eclipse, around midnight on the U.S. East Coast.
“This is a gradual, slow, wonderful event that you will be able to see, as long as the sky is clear where you are,” Petro said.
Failing that, NASA will be offering a live stream of the eclipse from several locations, as will the Slooh network of observatories.
More eclipses this year
Another long-duration total lunar eclipse will occur in November, with Africa and Europe once once more lucky, but not the American continent. The next one will not occur until 2025.
Launched late last year, NASA’s asteroid-hunting Lucy spacecraft will photograph the weekend event from a distance of 64 million miles (103 million kilometers) as ground controllers continue efforts to repair a loose solar panel.
NASA astronaut and geologist Jessica Watkins plans to set her alarm clock to go off early aboard the International Space Station.
“Hopefully we can get up in time and be in the right position at the right time to get a good look,” he told The Associated Press this week.
Regarding Venezuela, meteorologist Luis Vargas published the phases of the eclipse in Venezuela on his Twitter account.
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2024-07-21 07:33:05
