The first eclipse of 2018 will be a full lunar eclipse happening tomorrow (31st Jan). To makes things more interesting this is also a Blue moon and a Super Moon. Such an event hasn’t happened for more than 150 years. The next time a Blue Moon passes through Earth’s umbra will be on 31st Dec 2028, and after that on 31st Jan 2037. Both of these eclipses will be total as well. <\/p>\n
The timings are not the most convenient for me as I will still be at work during the full eclipse unless I leave early. In India the eclipse will follow the following timescale:<\/p>\n
18:21 Wed, 31 Jan\t<\/strong> 18:59 Wed, 31 Jan\t<\/strong> 19:37 Wed, 31 Jan\t<\/strong> 20:41 Wed, 31 Jan\t<\/strong> I wonder if I can carry the telescope to the Office. \ud83d\ude42 If that is not possible then I just might leave early from work and log back on later in the night. Hopefully I won’t have any late evening face to face meetings tomorrow. <\/p>\n The last eclipse I had folks over at my place for a get together for moon-watching and if this was over the weekend or later in the day then I would have done the same again. But… <\/p>\n Will try to take some good pics and share them. This is all for now. Will post more later.<\/p>\n – Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first eclipse of 2018 will be a full lunar eclipse happening tomorrow (31st Jan). To makes things more interesting this is also a Blue moon and a Super Moon. Such an event hasn’t happened for more than 150 years. The next time a Blue Moon passes through Earth’s umbra will be on 31st Dec […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tTotal Eclipse begins Total moon eclipse starts – completely red moon. Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-northeast.<\/p>\n
\n\tMaximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.\t<\/p>\n
\n\tTotal Eclipse ends Total moon eclipse ends.\t<\/p>\n
\n\tPartial Eclipse ends Partial moon eclipse ends.<\/p>\n