Monday, June 4, 2012

Partial Lunar Eclipse


EarthSky.Org reported that there will be a partial Lunar Eclipse on Monday, June 4th 2012, where the southern part of the full Strawberry Moon passes right through the northern part of Earth’s dark umbral shadow, to stage a partial eclipse of the moon visible in the Americas, Australia and Asia. For Malaysian, we will find the moon in eclipse as it rises over the east-southeastern horizon at sunset. The partial umbral eclipse lasts a little over two hours from start to finish. At mid-eclipse, about one-third of the moon’s disk will be covered over by the Earth’s dark umbral shadow. A very faint penumbral eclipse precedes and follows the dark umbral eclipse, even though most people won’t even notice the penumbral phase