The moon shines on Mexico City during a total lunar eclipse, in Mexico City, Friday March 14, 2025. Credit: AP Photo / Marco Ugarte, file
The second total lunar eclipse of the year arrives quickly, and this time Asia will have the best seats in the cosmos.
The shadow of the earth will obscure the full moon of this weekend while the native planet aligns perfectly between the moon and the sun. The whole will last a long hour and 22 minutes. The whole show – with the first dark bite of the moon – extends over more than five hours.
The shorter lunar eclipse in March offered a main vision in the Americas. But the next show – called a blood moon because of its dark red shade – on the opposite side of the world on Sunday evening and early Monday, local time.
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A total lunar eclipse, known as Blood Moon, is visible between skyscrapers on Friday March 14, 2025 in downtown Chicago. Credit: AP photo / Kiichiro Sato, file
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A total lunar eclipse is seen on the space needle, Thursday March 13, 2025, in Seattle. Credit: APTO Photo / LINDSEY WASSON, file
The whole eclipse will be visible in Asia – from Saudi Arabia to the Philippines, as far north as the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica – as well as parts of East Africa and the western half of Australia. The rest of Africa and Australia, as well as Europe, will be treated with some but not all action. Counts will be visible from the Brazilian coast and part of Alaska.
The leakage act of the moon will be followed two weeks later by a partial solar eclipse visible from New Zealand, a ribbon in Australia and Antarctica.
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