Pictured Above: The major stages of the Super Flower Blood Moon of May 2022 and their times. (Image Credit: NASA). The Sun, Moon and Earth will align Sunday night (15th May 2022) for a total lunar eclipse, which occurs when the Earth moves into place between the Sun and the Full Moon. As a result, the Earth casts a giant shadow across the lunar surface, bathing the Moon in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises — which is why lunar eclipses are also referred to as Blood Moons. Sunday’s event, also visible from Trinidad and Tobago, will occur for about an hour and a half, and will be one of the longest totalities of the decade. It will also be the first Blood Moon in a year. Sunday's Full Moon is also considered a Super Moon, meaning it looks bigger and brighter than usual because it is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit, also known as ‘Perigee.’ The total lunar eclipse will be visible from portions of the Americas, Antarctica, Europe, Africa and the East Pacific. Meanwhile, a penumbral eclipse, where the outer part of Earth's shadow blankets the Moon, will be visible in New Zealand, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. [Editor’s Note: EDT times below = T&T times] Depending on your location, a partial lunar eclipse begins at 10:28pm EDT (02:28 GMT on Monday). The Blood Moon will reach its peak at 12:11am EDT (04:11 GMT) on Monday before the lunar eclipse ends at 1:55am EDT (05:55 GMT). The penumbral moon phase of the eclipse will begin about an hour earlier and end about an hour after the partial eclipse, according to TimeandDate.com. You can watch the live stream of the total lunar eclipse below, beginning from 11am EDT on Sunday night, courtesy of NASA. This will be the first of two (2) lunar eclipses in 2022. The next one will take place on 8th November 2022 and will be visible at least partially from Asia, Australia, North America, parts of Northern and Eastern Europe, the Arctic and most of South America, according to TimeandDate.com.
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