It started a little while ago, the first lunar eclipse in 2020, where the globe witnesses the first phenomena of the eclipse of 2020, where a lunar eclipse of the semi-shadow type occurs, and during this semi-shadow eclipse the moon does not cross the dark part of the earth’s shadow “shadow” but passes through the outer part “Shadow” dimmed so the moon disk remains fully lit, dim lighting.
The National Institute of Astronomical Research, headed by Dr. Gad El-Kady, revealed that this eclipse cannot be seen with the naked eye and can be seen through telescopes in Egypt and in the Arab region as well as in the regions where the moon appears when the eclipse occurs, including (the continent of Europe – the continent of Asia – most of the continent of Australia – Africa Continent – Northwest North America – Eastern South America – West Pacific Ocean – Atlantic Ocean – Indian Ocean – Arctic Continent).
It will take all phases of the eclipse from its inception until the end of it for a period of approximately four hours and five minutes, and the beginning of the eclipse at seven o’clock and eight minutes and its end will be at eleven and twelve minutes approximately, and its peak (in the middle) in which the shadow of the earth is obscured is approximately 90% of the area The shadow is similar to its timing, with the timing of Badr, the first month of Jumada in 1441 AH, at approximately nine and ten minutes in the evening, Cairo local time.
And the phenomenon of lunar eclipse is useful in ascertaining the beginnings of the lunar (Hijri) months, where the lunar eclipse occurs in a corresponding position, i.e. in the middle of the lunar month when the moon is full and its presence is at one of the ascending or descending nodes resulting from the intersection of the moon’s orbit level with the level of the sun’s orbit (the zodiac), or Close to it, where the earth is located in this case between the sun and the moon, on the conjugation line, which is the line connecting the centers of the earth and the sun, or close to it.
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