LUNAR ECLIPSE
VISIBLE TO-NIGHT TOTALITY AT 9 P.M. At 6.25 this evening the first stage of a total eclipse of the moon will commence. The eclipse will be visible throughout New Zealand if the weather is clear. The penumbral eclipse which commences at 6.20 p.m., just before moonrise, will merely be a slight dimming of the ordinary brilliancy of the moon, but at 7.24, 14 minutes after the moon has risen at Auckland, the eclipse will reach a more interesting stage, and the earth’s shadow will move across the face of the moon. At 5.33 p.m. total eclipse will commence. Totality will continue for 56 minutes and at 9.29 p.m. the eastern limb of the moon will emerge from the shadow. The moon will then rapidly leave the shadOAV, whieli will pass off its disk at 10.39. The final stage of penumbral eclipse will continue until 11.38 p.m.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 12
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148LUNAR ECLIPSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 522, 27 November 1928, Page 12
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