Total lunar eclipse..and scenes from around the world spotted the event

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/05/16

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab weather</strong> - Yesterday night (Sunday / Monday) the earth witnessed a total eclipse of the moon, which was witnessed by the residents of the regions on the night side of the earth, in both the Americas, Africa and Europe, where the peak of the eclipse was around seven in the morning Mecca time, and therefore most Arab countries ( In the east) you were unable to view the total phase of the eclipse because the moon was already set below the horizon. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://earthsky.org/upl/2022/01/eclipse-total-lunar-may15-2022-InTheSky... style="width: 800px; height: 458px;" /></p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>(A map showing the regions that witnessed the total phase of the lunar eclipse (the dark region), and the regions on the outskirts that witnessed the beginning of the event (in the east) or its end (in the west))</strong></h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="en" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> One of our night shifters managed to put together this excellent timelapse of the lunar eclipse this evening. Enjoy! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LunarEclipse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etf... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/lunareclipse2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%... <a href="https://t.co/C1UqXG3ciI">pic.twitter.com/C1UqXG3ciI</a></p> — NWS Austin/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSSanAntonio/status/1526081548914552832?ref_src=tws... 16, 2022</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>(Time-lapse video of the total lunar eclipse from the Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service in the US)</strong></h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>These are scenes from around the world of the phase of the total lunar eclipse on the night of May 15-16, 2022:</strong> </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sQ55vMkpH6YRHqJMJpkSUA-970-80.jpg.webp" style="width: 800px; height: 539px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Photo of the total phase of the lunar eclipse - from Canada)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Steve Russell/Toronto Star) </h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S4Bn2MG35eZwaabqQo4gWN-970-80.jpg.webp" style="height: 450px; width: 800px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Photo of the total phase of the lunar eclipse - from Turkey)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency)) </h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9tJVzsLTTamNuDXZSUwS6C-970-80.jpg.webp" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image of the total phase of the lunar eclipse and its transformation into red/orange)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Chesnot)) </h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS3TCXwVUAAp1rY?format=jpg&amp;name=large" style="width: 800px; height: 1200px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image of the pre-total phase of the lunar eclipse and its beginning to turn red/orange - from Reno in the US state of Nevada)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Chesnot)) </h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fMkY6f8THjVYiRDDryAb67-970-80.jpg.webp" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Picture of the partial eclipse stage over Manhattan in New York City, USA)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Gary Hershorn) </h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i4toenhf2nQPyAkZNzYKcM-970-80.jpg.webp" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (The moon rises over New York City behind the Empire State Building before an eclipse begins)</p><h6 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> (Image credit: Gary Hershorn)</h6><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> These are the phases that the moon passed through during the total eclipse, and the time of each phase is in Eastern Summer Time (EDT), i.e. 7 hours later than Makkah Al-Mukarramah time (the peak was 7:11 am Mecca time): </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/muuDhS6iAohX8UByhZLQ5L-970-80.jpg.webp" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>You may also be interested in: <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-... does the moon appear red during a total eclipse?</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>You may also be interested in:</strong> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%... lunar and solar eclipses that the world will witness in 2022... 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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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