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At the end of January, people will be able to observe a unique phenomenon that has not existed for 150 years
31 January 2018, residents of the planet Earth will be able to see a unique phenomenon - a total eclipse of the moon. As the journalists of "Phrase" found out, the uniqueness lies in the fact that the eclipse will be accompanied by the phase of the second full month of January, which will have the blue color of its axis.
The last time this phenomenon was available to the Earth more than 150 years ago, reports Space . Com
As the newspaper writes, the eclipse will take place in the middle of the night, and the Pacific Ocean will face the moon at that time. Central and East Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and most of Australia will get a magnificent view of this moon show in the evening sky. It (the Moon) will go further, to the west, to West Asia, to the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The duration of the total phase of the eclipse will be 77 minutes. It is interesting that the lower part of the axis of the moon during the eclipse will be much brighter than the upper one.
The next time the eclipse will occur with the blue Moon only in 2028, and then in 2032. The last total eclipse of the Blue Month took place in 1866.
Earlier, "Phrase" reported that on August 7, residents of Ukraine could observe a partial shadow lunar eclipse. Then the shadow from the Earth "ate" the southern quarter of the full moon, and the illuminated part near the border of the shadow turned red.
The previous lunar eclipse the Ukrainians could observe in September 2016. Then the earth's shadow colored the natural satellite in a reddish-brown color
