Photograph tomorrow's lunar eclipse

Thursday 26 July 2018, 14:41 by Michelle Peeters | 7,709 views | 2 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Go and get yourself ready: tomorrow (Friday 27 July), you can see the longest lunar eclipse of the century. Look up this Friday evening: the moon will rise as a red orb. This is also called a blood moon, caused by a total lunar eclipse.

To see this remarkable phenomenon, you need to be ready by 9.30 pm. That is when the eclipse begins and the moon rises. The highlight is at 10.22 pm and the total eclipse ends at 11.14 pm.

After that, it takes about another two hours for the moon to shine normally again.

Other planets can be seen too

As well as the red moon being clearly visible, the other four planets can also be seen better. You can see Mars below and to the right of the moon. Jupiter and Saturn are in the south. Jupiter is the brighter of the two.

With a good pair of binoculars, you can see Saturn's rings and Jupiter's four largest moons. In the west, where the sun has set, Venus can be seen. It is the brightest light in the sky.

There was also a lunar eclipse three years ago. Photofacts blogger Nando Harmsen wrote an interesting article about it:

» 10 tips for photographing the lunar eclipse

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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2 comments

Johan wrote on Tuesday 31 July 2018 at 15:38 | reply
Dear Michelle.
I receive this email on 31-07-2018 but the Lunar Eclipse has already been gone for days
Translated from Dutch.

Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 31 July 2018 at 15:43 | reply
@Johan: indeed, I only came up with the idea of dedicating an article to this a bit too late. I'll try to think of it a little earlier from now on!
Translated from Dutch.

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