<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A scientist of MP Birla Planetarium told a news agency in Kolkata that the celestial body will also be tinged with a reddish hue, a phenomenon popularly referred to as a blood moon. He said, the eclipse would also be visible in parts of South America, much of Africa, the West and Central Asia.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The scientist said, the total lunar eclipse would last for one hour and 43 minutes while partial eclipses, which would precede and follow the total eclipse, would last more than an hour.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He said, the partial eclipse of the moon would start at 11:54 pm Indian Standard Time on 27th July and the total eclipse would begin at 1 am on July 28.&nbsp;</div>
News On AIR | July 3, 2018 5:54 PM
Century's longest total lunar eclipse on July 27