The lunar eclipse of a bloody flower is expected to begin around 10:30 pm on Sunday
Get ready to look at the sky on Sunday night.
There will be a lunar eclipse. But it will not be an ordinary eclipse, but a “bloody flower, a lunar eclipse.”
“The moon orbits the earth and the earth orbits the sun,” said Orbax Thomas, a professor in the physics department at the University of Guelph at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
“We have these three celestial bodies playing this complex dance, where everyone is sitting around each other and from time to time – in this case twice a year – it turns out that the moon is directly opposite the Earth, while the Earth is directly opposite the sun. “
He said that when there is a full moon, it is the sunlight that is reflected from the moon’s surface.
But in an eclipse there is no such light and the shadow of the Earth casts on the moon.
Now, unlike a solar eclipse, you won’t need a special telescope to see it.
However, Thomas encourages people to use binoculars or a small telescope and head to the outskirts of the city so that light pollution does not play a role.
You will be able to see the eclipse between Sunday night around 10:30 pm and Monday morning around 2 am
The total eclipse will probably be between 23:30 on Sunday and 00:50 on Monday.
Depending on the forecast, cloud cover may play a role. And if that happens, Thomas said NASA is broadcasting live eclipses on its social media channels from various parts of North America.
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