Like every year, astronomy lovers congratulate themselves when eclipse season.
This 2024, the start will be during the night of March 24-25 with a shock penumbral lunar eclipsean astronomical event that can be observed naked eyewithout the need for special glasses, binoculars or telescopes.
As for the area where it can be seen, it covers the much of AmericaEastern Australia, Eastern Asia, and western areas of Africa and Europe.
The eclipse will occur on the full Worm Moon, named after the natives of North America, which is the first full Moon of spring (in the Northern Hemisphere) or fall (in the Southern Hemisphere).
Lunar Eclipse March 2024: What is a Lunar Eclipse
As we said, this first eclipse of the year will be at lunar eclipse. The next one, however – which will take place on April 8th – will be a solar eclipse.
As NASA explains on its website, lunar eclipses occur during the full moon phase.
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth comes between the natural satellite and the Sun. Photo: ShutterstockAt that moment, the Earth It is positioned exactly between the moon and the Sunthen the shadow of our planet falls on the surface of the natural satellite, attenuating its brightness, darkening it or even “wiping it out” from the sky.
In some particular cases, the lunar surface takes on a surprising reddish hue, although this will not be the case.
Logically, lunar eclipses are visible in the half of the planet where it is located at the time. evening.
March 2024 Lunar Eclipse: What is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
While this lunar eclipse will be a penumbral lunar eclipse, there are others types of lunar eclipse. We see:
Total lunar eclipse. These eclipses occur when the full Moon crosses the Earth’s shadow threshold. They are distinguished by the range of colors that the star can adopt during the total phase.
Partial lunar eclipse. These types of eclipses occur when a portion of the Moon passes through Earth’s dark threshold. The remaining area of our natural satellite appears bright even though it is in darkness.
During this eclipse, the Moon will pass through the faint penumbral shadow. Photo: REUTER/filePenumbral lunar eclipse. During these eclipses, the Moon passes through the faint penumbral shadow of the Earth. In some cases, these types of eclipses are quite difficult to observe with the naked eye.
March 2024 lunar eclipse: where it will be seen
This lunar eclipseas we anticipated, it will be visible from anywhere in the world where it is night.
On the night between 24 and 25 March, much of American continent.
Also, detail timeanddate.comcan be seen in much of Europein the north/east of Asiain much of Australia and Africainside CalmHe AtlanticHe Arctic and the Antarctica.
In these areas of the world you will see the penumbral lunar eclipse of March 2024. Photo: Earthsky.orgThe penumbral eclipse start to at 04:53 (UT) on March 25, 2024. The Maximum point It will occur at 07:12 (UT), with a penumbral magnitude of 0.9577. In total, the lunar eclipse will last 4 hours and 53 minutes and will end at 09:33 (UT).
More details on the program in each country, in this note.
Source: Clarin
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