The `false` lunar eclipse appears in the sky of Saudi Arabia, coinciding with the full moon in the middle of Shawwal

Weather of Arabia - The sky of Saudi Arabia is witnessing in the middle of the month of Shawwal, corresponding to the evening of Friday, May 5, a lunar eclipse of the type "semi-shadow eclipse", which is one of the types of lunar eclipses during which the earth's shadow does not fall on the moon, but part of the sun's light is blocked from the surface of the moon, and in it The moon's illumination is 10% less than normal.

The eclipse comes two weeks after the hybrid eclipse of the sun, which occurred at the beginning of Shawwal on April 20, as usually two weeks separate the occurrence of a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse.

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According to the Saudi astronomer, Mulham Hindi, a member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences: “The penumbral eclipse lasts 4 hours and 17 minutes,” indicating that the eclipse will begin at 6:14 pm on Friday and reach its peak at 8:24 pm and end at 10:31 at night. . And he continued: "Because of the late moonrise in Saudi Arabia, we will notice the last stages of the eclipse, which start from sunset and moonrise until the end of the eclipse at 10:30."

He explained that a semi-shadow eclipse is one of the types of eclipses that people do not notice in a distinct way, and they cannot distinguish its beginning and end, as only a very light darkness can be observed on the left side of the moon, so the jurists issued a fatwa that there is no prayer for it, and it was called in the past a “false eclipse” for not People were able to distinguish it, despite the astronomers' news of the eclipse.