It promised to be a good one.
The total lunar eclipse on July 27-28, 2018 is the longest one this century and will be visible in large parts of the world. Check locations, local times, maps, animations, and the weather.
To find the times (start, totality and end) look at this interesting website.
https://www.timeanddate.com/
Enjoy.
Thanks Blikkies!
Koos, the entire world, excluding North America will see the eclipse. The site I mentioned has all the details.
Yes, we are minor in most aspects, but I understand our Milky Way is still one of the bigger ones discovered so far.
Ha ha, Yes Koos, the K9s did go nuts but I believe they were convinced that earlier in the evening it was full moon (their time to go nuts) and then within a few minutes the moon changed from full to dark which they just could not work out ... lol
In terms of the vastness of space. The Hubble (with its deep field photos) showed that there are about as many galaxies as there are sand particles on all our beaches. Mind boggling stuff.
Hey wait a minute moz. In certain aspects you are far more luckier than us. Last year you had a 100% solar eclipse with the totality band running over a large part of highly populated areas. We in the south do have cleaner air and can thus see the more dim objects much better. Just a pity we don't have rugga people here from say NZ or Tasmania who are interested in this stuff.
The sky was nice and clear here in Cape Town, so we had a nice view. It was raining a bit earlier the day, so I thought we might miss it. Blood Moon it was indeed.