By SHIORI OGAWA/ Staff Writer
November 20, 2021 at 15:23 JST
Stargazers around Japan were rewarded with an almost total lunar eclipse on the evening of Nov. 19, which at its peak put 97.8 percent of the moon in the shadow of the Earth.
The lunar eclipse began from around 4 p.m. and lasted until shortly before 8 p.m.
Except for Hokkaido and the northeastern Tohoku region, residents across the nation were able to observe the rising full moon slowly fall into the shadow of the Earth, with the height of the lunar eclipse occurring at 6:02 p.m.
Because most of the moon fell into the Earth’s shadow, the celestial body took on a copper tone caused by the small amount of red light from the sun passing through Earth’s atmosphere.
This was the second lunar eclipse this year, following a total eclipse in May.
The next total eclipse visible in Japan will occur in November 2022, and the next partial lunar eclipse is due in October 2023.
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