Sky watchers in the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth will witness the longest and the darkest Total Lunar Eclipse of this century on June 15, 2011 when the moon will appear 10,000 to 100,000 times faint. The occurrence will be the first of the two lunar eclipses in 2011 and the third of all eclipses that take place throughout the year. It is a comparatively unusual central eclipse where the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s dark shadow gradually assuming a coppery red color.
This lunar eclipse can be seen in its whole from western China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Arabia and the eastern half of Africa. Scientists guesstimate the total phase of the eclipse will last for 50 to 100 minutes. The next total lunar eclipse of outstanding length will be on July 27, 2018 while the next darkest lunar eclipse will be occur after 47 years from now on, on June 6, 2058 .
It would actually be interesting to see how dark the eclipse of June 15 would be because this year, besides the ashes from Iceland Grimsvotn volcano, the earth’s atmosphere is still polluted with ashes of last year’s explosion of volcano Eyjafjallajokull.
According to Karachi Astronomers Society the unusual Lunar Eclipse treat can be seen in Pakistan at around 23:23 to 03:02 Pakistan Standard Time. In the last 100 years, only three other eclipses have equal duration of entirety of this eclipse, according to SPACE.com’s sky watching columnist Joe Rao. The last lunar eclipse of same length took place on July 16, 2000 and lasted 107 minutes.
So are you ready to gaze and discover summer Milky Way during the Lunar Eclipse of this June?
This lunar eclipse can be seen in its whole from western China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Arabia and the eastern half of Africa. Scientists guesstimate the total phase of the eclipse will last for 50 to 100 minutes. The next total lunar eclipse of outstanding length will be on July 27, 2018 while the next darkest lunar eclipse will be occur after 47 years from now on, on June 6, 2058 .It would actually be interesting to see how dark the eclipse of June 15 would be because this year, besides the ashes from Iceland Grimsvotn volcano, the earth’s atmosphere is still polluted with ashes of last year’s explosion of volcano Eyjafjallajokull.
According to Karachi Astronomers Society the unusual Lunar Eclipse treat can be seen in Pakistan at around 23:23 to 03:02 Pakistan Standard Time. In the last 100 years, only three other eclipses have equal duration of entirety of this eclipse, according to SPACE.com’s sky watching columnist Joe Rao. The last lunar eclipse of same length took place on July 16, 2000 and lasted 107 minutes.
So are you ready to gaze and discover summer Milky Way during the Lunar Eclipse of this June?
