South Africa to miss out on total blood moon eclipse
Tuesday's Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will be the last until 2025 but will not be visible to South Africans with a naked eye.
POLOKWANE – Moon lovers and celestial event enthusiasts in South Africa will be disappointed to know that they won’t be able to view the total Beaver blood moon lunar eclipse.
A reddish moon will be visible for 85 minutes from four continents on Tuesday (November 8) but the eclipse will miss the entire continent of Africa and parts of Europe.
According to Space.com, a blood moon or total lunar eclipse happens as the full moon moves into the deep umbral shadow of the earth and receives only light first filtered by earth’s atmosphere.
This will be the second and final total lunar eclipse for 2022 as the last one took place on May 16.
Space.com said there will be two lunar eclipses in 2023.
The first on May 5 to 6, 2023 is a faint penumbral lunar eclipse visible to Africans as well as southern and eastern Europe, Antarctica, most of Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.
The second will be a slight partial lunar eclipse on Oct 28 to 29, 2023 and will be partly visible to Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, northern and eastern South America, the Arctic, Antarctica and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
However, thanks to technology, livstreams of tomorrow’s event will be available online with a broadcast scheduled by TimeandDate.com on their website and YouTube channel which South Africans can tune into from 11:00.
It will broadcast the entire event from its mobile observatory in Roswell, New Mexico and take live feeds from San Diego, California and from Perth in Western Australia.
The next total lunar eclipse will only be on March 13-14 2025.
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