Blood moon to be visible in Cyprus, Nigeria and most part of Africa on Friday July 27

The longest lunar eclipse of the century making the moon look blood red will be visible in Cyprus, Nigeria and other part of the world from the night of Friday July 27 until the early hours of Saturday July 28.

Astronomers expect the main spectacle to last approximately an hour and 43 minutes. From start to finish, the entire celestial event will last nearly four hours.

In Cyprus, the blood moon will begin with the penumbral eclipse at 8:14pm where the Earth’s penumbra will begin touching the moon’s face.

At 9:24pm partial eclipse will begin where the moon will start becoming red. Total eclipse will be at 11:30pm while maximum eclipse will be at 11:21pm and will end at 12:13am on Saturday.

Partial eclipse will end at 01:19am and the penumbral eclipse will end at 02:28am.

In Nigeria, the much expected total lunar eclipse or rather ‘blood moon’ will be seen in every nook and cranny of the country.

According to the Science News, Nigeria will experience total lunar eclipse, which would be is fully visible in Lagos!!!  

A ‘blood moon’ happens when Earth’s moon is in full eclipse and has no special astronomical significance, rather, the view in the sky is striking as the usually whitish moon becomes red or ruddy-brown.

The moon turns red because some of the sunlight going through Earth’s atmosphere is bent around the edge the planet and falls onto the moon’s surface.

Earth’s air also scatters shorter-wavelength light in colours such as blue and green, leaving the longer-wavelength redder end of the spectrum.

Essentially, the red colour is Earth’s refracted sunset-sunrise light being bounced back.