Partial lunar eclipse on Oct 28

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KUWAIT CITY, Oct 9 : The Space Museum at the Sheikh Abdullah Al- Salem Cultural Center announced that the Kuwaiti sky will witness a partial eclipse with the full moon on Saturday, October 28. General Supervisor of Museums and the Space Museum at the Center, Khaled Al-Jamaan, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) today, Monday, that the Earth’s shadow obscures 6 percent of the moon’s disk at its peak, and this eclipse can be seen in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Western Australia, indicating that the eclipse takes an hour and 17 minutes. He added that this eclipse is the second and last for this year, noting that the next lunar eclipse will be on September 18, 2024. He explained that the eclipse will begin with the penumbra phase and then become an eclipse, indicating that the penumbra phase is the decline in the moon’s illumination without the moon being eclipsed.

This phase begins at 9.01 p.m., then the partial eclipse phase begins at 10.35 pm and its peak is at 11.14 p.m. and ends at 11.52 pm. Al-Jamaan reported that there are three types of eclipse. The first is total, when the entire moon enters the Earth’s shadow area and the moon’s disk is eclipsed, leading to a complete loss of its visibility in the middle of the night, especially in desert areas. He explained that the second type is a partial eclipse, which occurs when part of the moon enters the Earth’s shadow area, causing part of the moon’s disk to be eclipsed. The third type is a penumbra eclipse, which occurs when the moon enters only the semi-shadow area, and the moonlight becomes dim without being eclipsed. He stated that the Space Museum will document the phenomenon as part of its plan to create an astronomical scientific archive of all phenomena in the skies of Kuwait. (KUNA)

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