Check the Last-Minute Time of Total Lunar Eclipse Happens Tonight

VIVA – A Total Lunar Eclipse will happen tonight, November 8, 2022. This phenomenon will be the second and last Total Lunar Eclipse Eclipse season for this year. In fact, this phenomenon will not exist until 2025.

According to an observer, Avivah Yamani, in 2023 and 2024 there will only be Penumbral Lunar Eclipses and Partial Lunar Eclipses.

"The Total Lunar Eclipse of November 8, 2022, begins before the Moon rises throughout Indonesia. If so, when it rises, the Moon has already experienced an eclipse, and areas of Indonesia that are divided into three time zones will see the eclipse at different phases of the eclipse," Avivah Yamani remarked on the Langit Selatan website.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks the Sun's light from reaching the Moon. As a result, no light is received to be reflected by the Moon. The Moon revolves around the Earth, so there are times when the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun. 

In this configuration, the Moon is in its Full phase. This happens regularly every month. However, not every full moon is an eclipse because the Earth is not always aligned with the Moon and Sun, so the Sun's light is blocked from reaching the Moon.

This is because the orbit or trajectory of the Moon around the Earth has a tilt of five degrees so that during the Full phase, the Sun, Earth, and Moon are not always aligned or parallel. If the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned, then the Moon will enter the umbra or shadow of the Earth's core and an eclipse occurs.

This phenomenon can be witnessed by people living in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, most of South America, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, the Arctic, the Antarctic, and all parts of Indonesia.

"Observers in eastern Indonesia are more fortunate because the Moon rises when just entering the penumbral eclipse. Thus, observers in eastern Indonesia can observe almost all phases of the eclipse," she explained.

As for central Indonesia, the Earth's natural satellite rises during a partial eclipse. This region can watch from partial eclipse to the end of the eclipse.

For western Indonesia, the Moon rises already in a total eclipse condition. And observers in the western region can watch the peak of the Total Lunar Eclipse until the eclipse ends. 

The whole process lasted for 5 hours 53 minutes 51 seconds, while the total eclipse lasted for 1 hour and 24 minutes 58 seconds. The first contact or penumbral eclipse begins at 15:02:15 Western Indonesia Time. and the final penumbral contact that ends the whole process at 20:56:09 Western Indonesia Time.

The second contact is when the Moon enters the Earth's umbra where the partial eclipse begins at 16:09:12 Western Indonesia Time and the total eclipse begins at 17:16:39 to 18:41:36 Western Indonesia Time.

After the total eclipse ends, the Moon will leave the Earth's umbra and the partial eclipse ends at 19:49:03 Western Indonesia Time. The peak of the eclipse occurs at 17:59:11 Western Indonesia Time.