 | Lunar eclipse of June 16, 2011. Credit ICCUB | Astronomer J.M. Carrasco (ICCUB) talks about the eclipse on the radio (Catalan)
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On July 16, 2019 a Partial Lunar Eclipse will occur with a 0.653 umbra magnitude . The maximum of the eclipse will be at 21:30 pm TU and the event will end at 00:17 TU.
Lunar eclipses are celestial phenomena visible from a wide geographical area. There are different types: most impressive are Total Eclipses, when the Moon gets completely covered by the shadow of the Earth taking a reddish hue; a little bit less spectacular are the Partial ones which take place when the Moon enters only partly in the shadow of the Earth, they are seen with one part of the disk darkened and the other part still illuminated; and the most subtle ones are the penumbral eclipses, when only a slight darkening of the disk can be appreciated.
The last Total Lunar Eclipse we could see was on January 21, 2019, the next one will be 26 May 2021 , but we will have to wait until 16 May 2022 to be able to observe one from the Iberian Peninsula.
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