Watch: Blood moon — 21st century’s longest lunar eclipse

The total eclipse will lasted an hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds.

July 28, 2018 12:08 am | Updated August 04, 2018 06:23 pm IST

A screengrab from NASA’s live stream of the lunar eclipse on July 27, 2018.

A screengrab from NASA’s live stream of the lunar eclipse on July 27, 2018.

 

This live is over. If you would like to revisit it, the “blood moon” lunar eclipse live coverage is till about -37 min.

A blood-red moon dazzled star gazers across much of the world on July 27-28 when it moved into Earth's shadow for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century.

From the Cape of Good Hope to the Middle East, and from the Kremlin to Sydney Harbour, thousands of people turned their eyes to the stars to watch the moon, which turned dark before shining orange, brown and crimson in the shadow.

The total eclipse lasted 1 hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds, though a partial eclipse preceded and follows, meaning the moon will spend a total of nearly 4 hours in the Earth's umbral shadow, according to NASA.

The fullest eclipse was visible from Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia and Australia though clouds blocked out the moon in some places.

Watched the eclipse? Now, take our interactive quiz on blood moons and black hole eclipses here .

Also read:

In pictures: The Blood Moon from across the world

 

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