![]() Next Eclipse: Annular Solar Eclipse Sat, Oct 14. Eclipse watchers can see the Moon turn red when the eclipse reaches totality. I am the editor of and author of “ The Complete Guide To The Great North American Eclipse of Ap. A total lunar eclipse takes place when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and its shadow covers the Moon. It will only be visible in the eastern Americas during moonrise and in western Australia during moonset, according to Sky At Night magazine.įor eclipse-chasers, October’s eclipse season is much anticipated-but it’s really all and only about the “ring of fire.” It will be best viewed from the night-side of the world-Europe, Africa and Asia. However, this will be barely perceptible-it won’t be a bona fide “Blood Moon.” At its peak only 6% will enter its central shadow, the umbra, so technically a slither of the moon will turn red. 28 a full “Hunter’s Moon” will drift into the Earth’s outer penumbral shadow. ![]() It will then be visible from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia and Brazil. It will make land at the Oregon coast and move through northern California, Nevada, southwestern Idaho, Utah, northeastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. This path of annularity will be narrow, around 125 miles wide, and stretch from the North Pacific to the South Atlantic. 14 a new moon will drift across the sun to cover about 90% of it, resulting in a “ring of fire” around the moon-but only as seen from a narrow strip of the Earth’s surface. That’s what will happen in October when a “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse will be followed two weeks later by a “Hunter’s Moon Eclipse.” ‘Ring Of Fire’ Explained Only if the timing is right can a new moon cover the sun exactly, but when it does, it’s followed (or preceded) by a lunar eclipse as full moon drifts into the Earth’s shadow. The moon’s orbital path is slightly inclined (by about 5º) to that ecliptic, intersecting it twice each month. However, eclipses occur because the moon’s orbital path intercepts what astronomers call the ecliptic-the apparent path the sun takes through our daytime sky.
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