Saturday, September 26, 2015

Sunday will be a super lunar eclipse – Clarín.com

The festival will again be at the top. Up there in the sky, the show will be free, it will reach to look up and see. Sunday night will be different because two of the most striking spectacles that can offer the moon will: A total eclipse that will stain the earth satellite red which will add the superluna effect , by which the star will be larger and brighter than usual

. The sequence shows lunar eclipse April 2014. NASA.

On the night of Sunday will be full moon. But not a common full moon, but something is usually called superluna since the moon will be at its perigee, the point of its closest approach to Earth orbit, “only” 357 thousand kilometers away . Therefore, he will see slightly larger (13-14%) and brighter than usual. It will be a very special seasoning most importantly, will happen shortly before midnight.

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The real show will begin at 22.07, when the shadow of the Earth round start to cover the lunar disk and will draw a bigger and bigger “bite out” dark. At 23.11, the Moon will be completely immersed in the Earth’s umbra: it will be the beginning of the totality of the eclipse, the central and most spectacular stage. Then the earth’s natural satellite will take a reddish

. The eclipse of April last year. (Fotorreporter)

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This so-called Blood Moon occurs because during a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s atmosphere (and primarily its dense lower layer, the troposphere) some sunlight refracted into the umbra. And it is the dim light that saves the moon than it otherwise would be an absolute darkness . Like most of the sun refracted light corresponding to the other side of the Earth, the Moon during totality is tinged with beautiful red and orange tones. The final will be at 00.23 on Monday , when the process will be reversed and the lunar disk again be winning his ivory white

The lunar eclipses living with enthusiasm at the Planetarium.

This eclipse will be the fourth and last of the series called tetrad Red Moon , which began on 15 April last year, when thousands of people across the country dicidieron delay sleep for a while to live the spectacle live. In Palermo, for example, astronomy lovers enjoyed waiting with guitars, matte, Fernet and passionate kissing couples

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On Sunday, the Planetarium of the City of Buenos Aires will provide an opportunity for people to better observe the phenomenon. There will be giant screens, telescopes enabled and explanations instantly what will happen. All set with songs according to this fantastic nature scene.

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