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Earth's shadow will cover the lunar surface began at 1:23 am off at midnight, marking the start of a total lunar eclipse. When completely covered, estimated blood-red moon.
"I bet the moon turns red. Red blood," said Perry Vlahos from the Astronomical Society of Victoria, Australia. "It will not be sorry to get up early." As quoted from Tempoteraktif.com
Events change the original color of a bright white full moon became blood red occur starting at 2:22 pm and last for the next 100 minutes. At that time, the whole dish month into the umbra of the earth.
Astronomers from Canberra, Paul Floyd, supporting predictions of the moon turns blood red. According to him, a total lunar eclipse is usually orange or red because the Earth's atmosphere acts like a weak lens which brings light from the sun into the shadows. However, this year's eclipse is likely redder than usual because of ash released into Earth's atmosphere from the eruption of volcanoes in Chile and Iceland.
"Eclipse has the potential to be very red, not just orange, but we will not know until it happens," said Floyd.
