In mostly clear skies early risers could observe a total lunar eclipse. The earth-satellite completely plunged into the earth-shadow at 5:41 o’clock. Mostly the view on the „blood moon“ was good.
If you want to see the total lunar eclipse, you can look forward to a mostly cloudless sky – but he has to get up early and dress warmly. Only in the north and in the foothills of the Alps, the „blood moon“ could be covered by clouds, said the German Weather Service (DWD).
From 5:41 clock on the moon is completely in the shadow of the earth and only at 6.44 again completely stepped out. Its reddish shimmer is best seen in the middle of Germany. Almost everywhere in the country, however, the lunar eclipse can be seen in frosty temperatures. They are between minus one and minus ten degrees in the east.
It can only come to a lunar eclipse at full moon. Sun, earth and moon are exactly in line with this darkness. The spectacle starts around 4:34, when the full moon slowly moves into the core shadow of the earth. The sun’s rays are broken in the earth’s atmosphere. Since only the long-wave reddish light reaches the moon, it shimmers reddish. Since the moon is just on a particularly near-earth section of its approximately elliptical orbit, it also appears particularly large.
