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'Blood moon' to stun UAE with longest eclipse of century

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Blood moon to stun UAE with longest eclipse of century

Sharjah - The last blood moon phenomenon took place in January.

Published: Sat 30 Jun 2018, 9:52 AM

Updated: Sun 1 Jul 2018, 1:22 AM

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The UAE will bear witness to a total lunar eclipse which will stun the senses next month. 
The longest "blood moon" lunar eclipse of the century will take place for nearly 103 minutes.
On July 27, at 9:14pm UAE local time, the moon will enter into the eclipse phase and continue for five hours until 2:19am. 

 
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This as related by Ibrahim Al Jarwan, Deputy Director of the Sharjah Centre for Space and Astronomy.    
Totality will occur from 11:30pm until 1:30am for 103 minutes. 
The peak eclipse time will take place at 12:21am.  
 
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The blood moon will be visible in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand but excluding America.
The last eclipse had taken place on January 31, a super rare blue blood moon that combined three lunar phenomena - supermoon, blue moon and blood moon.



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