Hyderabad: India will witness a total lunar eclipse on September 7. It will be the longest visible in the country since 2022. Astronomers said this is also the first full eclipse since July 27, 2018, that people across India can see.
Divya Oberoi, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune, said the next such eclipse will occur only on December 31, 2028. The celestial event will span the night of September 7 and continue into the early hours of September 8.
Total lunar eclipse timings
The Public Outreach and Education Committee (POEC) announced that the eclipse will begin at 8:58 p.m. on Sunday. The partial phase will start at 9:57 p.m. The total phase will last from 11:01 p.m. to 12:23 a.m., covering 82 minutes. The event will end at 2:25 a.m. on September 8.
