21st Century has witnessed many Lunar eclipses in its journey. Last time the moon seems red in February and eclipse remained for approx 45 minutes. The upcoming total Lunar is going to be special as it would be the longest of the 21st century. The blood moon will appear on the nights of 27th and 28th July.
Astronomers reported that the event will last for around 4 hours in which eclipse would be noticed for 1 hour 43 minutes. For this, the officials stated, “the Moon takes nearly four hours to cross the Earth's dark umbral shadow”.
Eclipse peak time is expected to be as 8:22 p.m. UTC or 1:52 AM IST(Indian Standard Time). People of Europe and its surrounding regions would be able to witness the event directly. Other regions could have the opportunity to enjoy extremely rare celestial event otherwise they would be left with the single option of online streaming the coverage of the event.
It's widely rumoured that the blood moon is not a good phenomenon and addressed an evil eye. But people can enjoy it without any tension as its just a natural occurrence which happened when sun, earth and moon come aligned that results in scattering of sunlight through earth’s atmosphere which makes the moon appeared as red.
