18 September 2024, Brandenburg, Biegen: The peak of the partial lunar eclipse can be seen at around ...
[+] 4:45 in the early morning. Between 4:13 and 5:16 a.m.
, the moon's disk was darkened at the top right. Only 9.1 percent of the moon was covered during this partial lunar eclipse.
Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Did you see the “supermoon eclipse?” Visible across the U.S., South America, Europe, Africa and much of Asia, the partial lunar eclipse saw a bite taken out of the moon for over an hour.
During the event—which was preceded by a beautiful full moonrise—the full “harvest moon” entered Earth's shadow in space, which it rarely does. As it did, it lost its brightness over the 91 minutes it took to be fully engulfed. It then began to have a bite taken out of it by Earth's darker central shadow—its umbra—a vast curved line appearing to sculpt part of the moon's limb.
A partial lunar eclipse on Sept. 18, 2024, though a Seestar telescope. Over 62 minutes, that bite grew until about 8% of the lunar surface was in deep shadow.
The event then reversed, with the dark shape gradually receding before the full moon slipped out of Earth's shadow to regain its regular full moon-like glare. Two weeks after last night's partial lunar eclipse, on October 2, an annular solar eclipse will be seen from a narrow path through the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean via Easter Island, southern Chile and southern Argentina. .