Ash To Turn The Moon A Darker Shade Of Red During Lunar Eclipse
Observers around the Australia would like to see a large, round and red moon during the total solar eclipse early tomorrow.
Surprisingly, the Moon will not disappear until the sun during a total solar eclipse, thanks to the geometry of the Earth, sun and moon in relation to the other.
Surprisingly, the Moon will not disappear until the sun during a total solar eclipse, thanks to the geometry of the Earth, sun and moon in relation to the other.
Eclipse starts at 03:25 AEST and is entering its darkest of all, at 05:22 AEST.
Clear skies permitting, you can see the whole hour and 41 minutes of each package, except the capital city of Brisbane, if the Moon sets while fully eclipsed.
During the full moon would be redder. Why red?
"Lunar eclipse as deep as this usually becomes blood red, or even the color of copper, but this is highly dependent on the amount of dust cloud and the earth's atmosphere," said Andrew Jacob, as the liquidator of Sydney Observatory .
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Thus the particles in the atmosphere scatters blue light, but the red remains.
As the depth of the color red to produce a total lunar eclipse is an indication of the weather, and remants plume of ash from the volcano erupted in Chile on June 4 should be to deepen the color.
Lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon crosses the Earth's shadow, or Umbra. This eclipse is particularly long as the moon passes exactly through the center of the Earth's Umbra.
The complete harmonization of the Sun, Earth and Moon is called syzygy, from the Latin word for "together", syzgygia.
Total lunar eclipses do not happen every full moon 'cause the Moon's orbit is tilted relative to the Earth in orbit around the sun. When the full moon usually passes above or below the Earth's Umbra.
Night owls who miss tomorrow's Eclipse is a second chance on December 10 from 23:45.
