Sky-watchers
around the world are in for a treat on Sunday night and Monday Sep 28,2015 when the
shadow of Earth casts a reddish glow on the moon, the result of rare
combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year.
The
total "supermoon" lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon" is one
that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in
its orbit that is closest to Earth.
"There’s
no physical difference in the moon.
It just appears slightly bigger in
the sky," planetary geologist Noah Petro, with NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said.
If
skies are clear, the phenomenon will be visible from North and South
America, Europe, Africa and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific.
In the United States, the eclipse begins at 8:11 p.m. EDT/0011 GMT.
The
total eclipse starts two hours later and lasts for one hour and 12
minutes.
It has been more than 30
years since a supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse, said NASA.
The
next total lunar eclipse will not be until 2018
The moon gradually changed from a regular full moon to a blood moon over Bogota, Colombia
The supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor in Somerset,home to St Michael's Tower, where dozens of people gathered
The vibrant supermoon rises above the Stuart mansion of Bolsover Castle near Chesterfield in Derbyshire,UK
The supermoon illuminated the night as it rose into the sky over St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside,UK
The supermoon rises above Brighton beach in East Sussex,UK
The bright red supermoon rises over the Washington Monument,USA
Sightseers casting their eyes up to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City also got a view of the supermoon
The blood moon appeared to rise directly above the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, Illinois,USA
The huge, bright moon filled the sky behind the state capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah,USA
A supermoon rises over the minaret of a mosque in Wadi El-Rayan Lake at the desert of Al Fayoum Governorate, near Cairo,Egypt
It was supermoon time in Warsaw,Poland as the lunar phenomenon was visible next to a clock on the Palace of Culture
The supermoon almost appeared to be sitting on top of a skyscraper in Warsaw,Poland as it passed over the Polish city
The red-appearing moon was visible behind this colourful Orthodox church in the city of Turets, west of Minsk,Belarus
A supermoon rises in the sky over the Rio de La Plata in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires
The full supermoon sets over the central business district of Sydney on the south-eastern coast of Australia
A supermoon rises in the sky near the Eiffel tower as seen from Suresnes in the west of the Paris
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