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This year’s first lunar eclipse tomorrow
Mar 22, 201603:57 PM
Sri Lanka’s first penumbral lunar eclipse for this year will occur on Wednesday, March 23, a day after the Medin Full Moon Poya Day.
The eclipse will begin at 3.09 pm on March 23 and end at 7.24 pm Sri Lanka standard time, Prof. Chandana Jayaratne said.
In a penumbral eclipse, the moon will not enter into the dark shadow of the earth, but to the lighter shadow.
“Therefore, during this eclipse a person will not be able to see the dark shadow as in a total or partial lunar eclipse but only a reduction of the brightness of the moon”, he explained.
The last lunar eclipse of the year will occur at midnight on September 16, 2016, on Binara Full Moon Poya Day.
