The total lunar eclipse what will happen in the early hours of next monday It will be broadcast live from the observatories of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in El Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma) and El Teide (Tenerife).
In a statement, the astronomer of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands Miquel Serra-Ricart has indicated this Monday that if it is thought that from Europe you will have to wait until March 2025 to witness another total lunar eclipse “it’s worth it” to get up early so as not to miss the Red Moon next Monday.
The Sky-Live.tv channel will monitor an eclipse from the observatories in the Canary Islands that, starting at 03:27 on Monday, Canary Islands time, will allow us to see the moment in which the Moon crosses the shadow of the Earth and acquires the characteristic coppery glow of lunar eclipses.
The IAC reminds that lunar eclipses occur when the satellite passes through the shadow of the Earth, which does not happen every month because the Moon’s orbit is tilted with respect to that of the Earth-Sun, in the plane that is known What “ecliptic”.
Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are visible from anywhere in the world once the Moon is above the horizon.
According to data provided by NASA, the totality phase of the eclipse will last 1 hour, 24 minutes and 53 secondsstarting at 02:27 UT (in Universal Time English, 1 more hour in the Canary Islands and 2 more hours in the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, during summer time) and ending at 05:55 UT.
The Moon will begin to eclipse -entry into the Earth’s shadow- at 02:27 UT, and from the entire American continent and Atlantic and Central Europe the eclipse can be observed in its entirety.
Within the dissemination activities of the European project Interreg EELabs (eelabs.eu) and with the collaboration of the tourism area of the Cabildo de La Palma and the Society for the Promotion and Development of La Palma (Sopedal), through the Program for the Promotion of AstroTurismo, the sky-live.tv channel will broadcast, live, the projection of Teide’s shadow during sunset and moonrise from the Tenerife observatory.
The connection will take place on the afternoon of Sunday 15 at 19:15 UT (20:15 in the Canary Islands and 1 hour more in the Peninsula).
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The cameras will continue broadcasting and, starting at 02:15 UT (03:15 in the Canary Islands and 04:15 in the Peninsula), the totality phase will be followed with explanations by Miquel Serra-Ricart through https ://www.sky-live.tv.
The Spanish supercomputing centers Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CETA-CIEMAT), Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) will collaborate in the distribution of the retransmission.