The moon would rise in Chennai at 18.30 hours. When it rises, it would be seen as a partially eclipsed moon. The partial phase would continue till 19.15 hours, when the eclipse would have almost ended.
"In actual fact, the moon will not be completely blocked out during the eclipse, but it will appear wherever visible with a brownish reddish glow. This is the so called 'blood' moon. This is because sunlight manages to reach the moon after bending through the earth's atmosphere," said executive director Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre P Iyamperumal.
The Science Centre has made arrangements for the public to view the eclipse from 6.30pm onwards on its Kotturpuram campus. "We have planned to install 4 telescopes from 6.30pm when the moon will rise in the city. Public can view the eclipse, then will be only partial, till 7.30pm," said Iyamperumal.
The extreme north eastern parts of India will witness a total lunar eclipse where the moon is entirely in the Earth's shadow and appears to change color, usually to red, as it enters the darkest part of the shadow called the umbra.
Apart from India, people in the eastern parts of the US and Canada, along with Argentina and Brazil, will be able to view the initial umbral stages of the total eclipse where the moon moves into the fringes of the Earth's shadow.
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