The Spectacular Supermoon Eclipse Will Not Happen Again Until 2033
This Sunday night sky will be hosting a breathtaking celestial event i.e. a Super Harvest Moon Lunar Eclipse. The event is all set to start around at 9 pm on Sunday. According to experts, such an event will not happen again until 2033.
Gary Kupper, who arranges astronomy nights at the Ira Township Library, said in order to watch this rare event a person won't need special equipments or travel to someplace far away from the city lights and pollution. One could easily watch the event even if standing in downtown Detroit, he said.
Experts said this supermoon is a special one because it will happen at the junction of three events: a full moon; a lunar eclipse; and a supermoon, when the moon is at its perigee, or the closest point in its orbit to the earth. The only thing that can interrupt the show is the weather, they said.
Mike Narlock, head of astronomy at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, said, "Hopefully, cross fingers, it's going to be a clear night. We're going to get to watch as the full moon plunges into the ruddy shadow of the earth".
Unlike a total solar eclipse, which obscures the sun and plunges a swath of the earth into darkness a lunar eclipse does not block the moon, Narlock said.
Narlock said this lunar eclipse will look like as if somebody is taking a nibble out of the moon, and it will be a red nibble. This red moon is also called blood moon, he added.
Sunday's event will start with a partial eclipse at 9:07 pm, total eclipse starts at 10:11 pm with the mid-eclipse point at 10:47 pm. The total eclipse will end at 11:23 pm; the partial is finished at 12:27 am on Monday.