Nigeria will experience a
total lunar eclipse on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, the National Space Research and
Development Agency (NASRDA) has revealed.
Felix Alle, head, media and
public communications of the agency, said this in a statement on Friday.
A lunar eclipse is a
celestial incident where the moon appears darkened as it passes into the
earth’s shadow. It occurs only when the sun, and the moon are exactly aligned
with the earth between the two.
“There will be a lunar
eclipse over Nigeria on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. The eclipse, expected to be
total, will begin in the evening of Sunday and end on Monday.
The eclipse will start
across Nigeria in the early hours of Monday at approximately 3:36 am to reach
its maximum at 6:12am and end at about 6:43am. The total duration of the
occurrence over Nigeria will be three hours and 15 minutes,” the statement
read.
Alle said the lunar eclipse
would, by 4.33am, become a partial eclipse, where the moon would start getting
red.
He added that “at exactly
5.41am, a maximum eclipse of the moon which may be visible to human sight will
be witnessed, while the moon eclipse is expected to end at 6.43am”. He said
this year’s eclipse would be the last to be experienced until 2021.
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