 | Composition of imagres of the September 2015 eclipse. Credit: Eduard Masana | |
Next July 27 a Total Lunar Eclipse will be visible from Spain. However the rising Moon will already be partially eclipsed.
Lunar eclipses are celestial phenomena visible from a wide geographical area. There are different types: most impressive are Total Eclipses, when the Moon gets completely covered by the shadow of the Earth taking a reddish hue; a little bit less spectacular are the Partial ones which take place when the Moon enters only partly in the shadow of the Earth, they are seen with one part of the disk darkened and the other part still illuminated; and the most subtle ones are the penumbral eclipses, when only a slight darkening of the disk can be appreciated.
The last Total Lunar Eclipse we could see was on September 2015, the next will be on January 2019 .
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