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Century’s longest total lunar eclipse of 1 hr 43 min to occur on 27-28 July 2018
Century’s longest total lunar eclipse of 1 hr 43 min to occur on 27-28 July 2018- Details, Schedule, Visibility, About
As per the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, century’s (2001 AD to 2100 AD) longest total lunar eclipse of 1 hour 43 minutes will occur on 27 July & 28 July 2018.
The whole lunar eclipse will be visible from all parts of India. It will also be visible in the region covering Asia, Australia, and Russia – except northern part, Europe, Africa, east of South America and Antarctica.
The partial eclipse of Moon will begin on 27 July 2018. Later, Moon will be gradually covered by Earth’s shadow and totality phase will begin on July 28 and the total eclipse will last up to 2h 43m. Then the Moon will start to gradually come out of Earth’s shadow and partial eclipse will end on 28 July 2018.
About Longest Total Lunar Eclipse
In this lunar eclipse, Moon will be passing through central part of Earth’s umbral shadow. During this time, Moon is located at apogee (i.e. at farthest from the Earth) in its orbit and will be moving at a slower speed in its orbit.
During this transition phase, it will take longer time for Moon and greater distance of Earth’s umbral shadow to travel, making it longest duration of a total eclipse of this century.
Such long duration of total lunar eclipses earlier had occurred on 16 July 2000, for totality duration of 1 hour 46 minutes and on 15 June 2011, for totality duration of 1 hour 40 minutes.
