[ad_1]
If you are in the Caribbean, look at the moon in the early hours of Monday morning and you may see part of a lunar eclipse.
According to timeanddate.com, this is the last penumbral lunar eclipse of 2020.
Residents of North and South America, Australia and parts of Asia can see about 82% of the Full Moon turn a darker shade during the maximum phase of this eclipse.
NASA says the eclipse is expected to be visible around 4.30am early Monday morning, Eastern Standard Time (EST).
(Source: NASA)
The darkening of the Moon during this eclipse will likely not be evident without instrumentation, but for spacecraft on the Moon like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) the reduction in solar energy will be evident.
This full moon is known as Cold Moon, Frozen Moon, Winter Moon, Beaver Moon, Oak Moon, Moon before Christmas, Infant Moon, Kartik Purnima, Karthika Deepam and Tazaungdaing Festival Moon and Ill Poya.
2020 also marks a historic meeting of Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky. For the first time since 1623, these celestial bodies will appear conjoined, almost like a star.
The next time these two planets appear so close to each other it will be in 2080.
Source link
