Blood Moon

Tuesday’s Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will be the last until 2025, but will not be visible to South Africans with the naked eye. Photo: Twitter @Bayram_yenikaya

Blood Moon lunar eclipse: Bad news! South Africans will miss the event – WATCH

Tuesday’s Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will be the last until 2025, but will not be visible to South Africans with the naked eye.

Blood Moon

Tuesday’s Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will be the last until 2025, but will not be visible to South Africans with the naked eye. Photo: Twitter @Bayram_yenikaya

Tuesday’s Beaver Blood Moon total lunar eclipse will be the last until 2025, but will not be visible to South Africans with the naked eye.

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Celestial event enthusiasts in Mzansi will be disappointed to learn that they won’t be able to view Tuesday, 8 November’s total Beaver Blood Moon lunar eclipse.

A reddish moon will be visible for 85 minutes from four continents on the day, but the eclipse will miss the entire continent of Africa and parts of Europe.

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However, thanks to technology, livestreams of the event will be available online with a broadcast scheduled by TimeandDate.com on their website and YouTube channel which South Africans can tune into from 11:00 (SA time).

It will broadcast the entire event from its mobile observatory in Roswell, New Mexico and take live feeds from San Diego, California and from Perth in Western Australia.

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Next Blood Moon in March 2025

According to Space.com, a blood moon or total lunar eclipse happens as the full moon moves into the deep umbral shadow of the earth and receives only light first filtered by earth’s atmosphere.

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This will be the second and final total lunar eclipse for 2022 with the first one having taken place on May 16.

Space.com confirmed there will be two lunar eclipses in 2023.

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The first on May 5-6, 2023 will be a faint penumbral lunar eclipse visible to Africans as well as southern and eastern Europe, Antarctica, most of Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

The second will be a slight partial lunar eclipse on October 28-29, 2023 and will be partly visible to Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, northern and eastern South America, the Arctic, Antarctica and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The next total lunar eclipse will only be on March 13-14, 2025.

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