The moon will be very low over the horizon, the best view of the phenomenon will be from the hills or mountains, he said web Martin Gembec from the Czech Astronomical Society (ČAS) and the planetarium of the Liberec Science Center iQLandia.
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According to him, a partial lunar eclipse will start shortly before half past four in the morning, but people from the Czech Republic will only see it for less than an hour. After five o’clock, the moon sets. Cloudless weather and a good view of the southwestern horizon will be needed for the success of the observation. Gembec also advises people to use small binoculars.
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Most of the phenomenon in the Czech-Slovak territory will be made by the West Bohemians, to whom the eclipsed full moon will fall over the horizon just before the beginning of the total eclipse.
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The full moon enters the earth’s shadow at 3:32:07 CEST. “At that moment, even if we were already awake, we would not notice anything with our eyes. Only after a quarter to five will the upper left of the Moon seem a bit ‘smoky’, “said Gembec.
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The Moon will enter the full earth shadow at 4:27:53 CEST. “It will look black to the eye, but in a photo with a longer exposure time, we would find that its center is red and the edge is gray-blue to gray. This is due to the refraction of the Sun’s light in the Earth’s atmosphere. The light refracts both in the higher layers with ozone, which is the source of the bluish edge of the shadow, and in the denser ones, through which only red light passes and the other colors are scattered, “explained Gembec.
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