B.C. residents will only get one opportunity to witness an eclipse in 2019, so mark your calendars for Jan. 20 to catch a lunar eclipse and 91裸聊视频渟uper blood wolf moon91裸聊视频�.

Astronomer Ken Tapping, who works out of the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO), broke down when exactly our eyes should be on the sky that evening.

91裸聊视频淎t 6:36 p.m., we91裸聊视频檒l see the moon start to darken as it moves into the outer shadow of the Earth. Then at 7:34 p.m., it will start to move into the inner shadow, so at that point we91裸聊视频檒l start to see the shadow of the edge of the Earth moving across the lunar disc slowly,91裸聊视频� said Tapping. 91裸聊视频淎t 8:41 p.m., the moon will be completely covered - completely immersed in the Earth91裸聊视频檚 shadow. The middle of the eclipse is at 9:12 p.m. and at 9:43 we will see the moon start to move out of the shadow.91裸聊视频�

Tapping continued that at 10:50 p.m., the moon will be completely out of the Earth91裸聊视频檚 inner shadow, with the eclipse officially ending at 11:48 p.m. when the moon exits the outer shadow. He said residents shouldn91裸聊视频檛 be surprised that the eclipse will last for nearly five hours.

91裸聊视频淭he Earth casts a fairly large shadow, as opposed to when we91裸聊视频檙e looking at the shadow of the moon on the Earth for eclipses of the Sun - that casts a very small shadow,91裸聊视频� said Tapping.

Also unlike a solar eclipse, residents do not need to avert their gaze from the moon during the eclipse or use visionary aids to watch the eclipse take place. Tapping said a 91裸聊视频渟uper blood wolf moon91裸聊视频�, which is when the moon appears red, can take place during this eclipse depending on how clean the atmosphere is.

91裸聊视频淚f you were standing on the moon in the middle of the eclipse looking at the Earth, you wouldn91裸聊视频檛 see the Sun because the Earth would be blocking it. What you would see is a ring of red around the Earth, which is essentially the sunset colour of the Sun shining through the atmosphere, then being refracted onto the moon,91裸聊视频� said Tapping. 91裸聊视频淪o the light that will be shining on the moon is red because of the Earth91裸聊视频檚 atmosphere, so if the atmosphere is nice and clean then you get a lovely bronze or blood-coloured moon. If there91裸聊视频檚 a lot of pollution, the moon will look darker and more grey.91裸聊视频�

Tapping said this is the only eclipse in 2019 we will have the pleasure of seeing from B.C. and North America in general.

91裸聊视频淭here will be a solar eclipse on Jan. 6, which will only be visible in Asia. There91裸聊视频檚 a total solar eclipse on July 2, visible only from the South Pacific and South America,91裸聊视频� said Tapping. 91裸聊视频淛uly 4 will have a lunar eclipse only visible from South America, and on Dec. 26 there will be a solar eclipse over the Indian and Pacific Oceans which will cross over hardly any land at all.91裸聊视频�

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Jordyn Thomson | Reporter
 
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