Upcoming lunar eclipse will last for more than 6 hours

[Friends just call me Ross]

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November 2021 partial lunar eclipse longest for 1,000 years

 

The November 18-19, 2021, partial lunar eclipse will last for more than 6 hours.

 

The last time a partial lunar eclipse lasted that long was in the year 1440, when the Incas were building Machu Picchu.

 

Partial lunar eclipse with near-perfect alignment

 

The November 19, 2021, partial lunar eclipse – which is best overnight on November 18 for North America – will be the longest such event within a stretch of 1,000 years. The last partial lunar eclipse that stretched longer happened on February 18, 1440. The next time Earth will see a partial lunar eclipse as lengthy as this month’s will be on February 8, 2669. Why is it so long? As you might have guessed, the ordinary movements of worlds in space play a role.

 

Between 06:02 and 12:03 UTC (convert UTC to your time) on November 19, the sun, Earth, and moon will come into near-perfect alignment. Earth’s shadow will fall on the moon, resulting in the partial lunar eclipse. At the maximum point of the eclipse – at 09:02 UTC – 99% of the moon’s face will be covered by the dark inner part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra. The remaining sliver of the lunar disk will be deep within the lighter, outer part of Earth’s shadow, known as the penumbra.

The overall duration of the November 2021 eclipse – from the moment the moon enters Earth’s penumbral shadow, to the moment it leaves – will be around 21,693 seconds (about 6 hours and 2 minutes). For a non-total lunar eclipse – in other words, a lunar eclipse that only has penumbral and partial phases – this is an unusually long duration.

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99% coverage?  For over six hours?  Once in a nearly a thousand year event?

If the skies are clear, I will be checking this lunar eclipse out, for sure.  

[Tortuga]

We are UTC-8 so it will be from 22:00 to 04:00 and the weather forecast is partly cloudy.

 

Well, if I don't see this one, I'll see the next one in 2669..😁

Edited November 11, 2021 by Tortuga

[Tortuga]

Well, I missed it. It was too cloudy in our area. I'll try to see the next one in 648 years....😁

[Friends just call me Ross]

6 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

Well, I missed it. It was too cloudy in our area. I'll try to see the next one in 648 years....😁

People who COULD see it took pictures to share with all of us who had overcast skies:

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 Robert Hall in South Mississippi took this image of the lunar eclipse on November 19, 2021. He wrote: “The moon turned red once it was 90% eclipsed.” 

 

[Friends just call me Ross]

 Marcia Bower in Syracuse, New York wrote on November 19, 2021: “This morning’s eclipse.” 

 Patrick Prokop in Savannah, Georgia, wrote: “The lunar eclipse of November 18-19, 2021, from the beginning to the maximum eclipse of 97%. Photos were taken in the Heavenly Backyard garden using the Orion EON 130mm refractor telescope. There were periods of dense cloud cover which caused some of the middle images to be a bit blurry, as I had to work around the brief cloud openings but the sky clear just before the maximum portion of the eclipse.” 

[Cushi]

Here’s some pics I took of it this morning on my cell phone. They don’t look all that good but you get the idea 🙂