Total Lunar Eclipse on Saturday/Sunday Nov 8/Nov 9 2003

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Total Lunar Eclipse on Saturday, Nov 8 2003 (6.30PM - 10.05 PM EST)

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The entire eclipse will be visible from Europe and

most of Africa as well as the eastern Americas. Various stages of the

eclipse are in progress at moonset for observers

throughout Asia. In the Western Hemisphere, the ingressing partial

phases will already be in progress at moonrise for

observers in western Canada and the U. S.

 

In India, the eclipse is visible on Sunday, Nov 9, 2003 in the early

morning hours between 5 AM and 8.34 AM IST as per Vakya Panchangam.

 

Note: No eclipse is visible from easternmost Asia, Japan, Indonesia or

Australia.

 

(Courtsey of NASA: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html)

Find out time for your

town from URL http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/LunarEclipse.html

 

 

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Total Eclipse of the Moon (New Jersey, NY, Pittsburg)

 

Eastern Standard Time

h m

 

Moon enters umbra* 2003 Nov 08 18:32.4

Moon enters totality 2003 Nov 08 20:06.3

Middle of eclipse 2003 Nov 08 20:18.5

Moon leaves totality 2003 Nov 08 20:30.7

Moon leaves umbra** 2003 Nov 08 22:04.5

 

* - eclipse begins

** - eclipse ends

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