Longest total lunar eclipse since 2022 to be visible across India on Sep 7-8: Astronomers

Bengaluru, Sep 5: The longest total lunar eclipse visible from India since 2022 will occur on the intervening night of September 7 and 8, astronomers said.

They added that this is the first time since July 27, 2018, that an entire total lunar eclipse can be observed from all parts of the country.

“You will have to wait till December 31, 2028, for the next one,” said Divya Oberoi, chair of the Public Outreach & Education Committee (POEC) of the Astronomical Society of India (ASI) and Associate Professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. Eclipses are rare and do not occur every full or new moon because the Moon’s orbit is inclined about 5 degrees to the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, Oberoi explained.