Below that, you can see images of the eclipse taken from around the world and our highlights as it happened. In the video below, you can see highlights from The Virtual Telescope Project’s stream of the eclipse. It is called Flower Moon because springtime typically starts around May in the Northern Hemisphere and the season is associated with an abundance of flowers. Yesterday’s eclipse coincided with the “Flower Moon,” which is a name for the full moon that happens in May every year. The eclipse was at its greatest at around 10.54 PM IST on May 5. This includes Antarctica, Asia, Russia, Africa and Oceania. It was visible in all regions of the world where the moon was be above the horizon during the eclipse. Due to this, the only visible change was that the disc of Earth’s lone satellite was almost imperceptibly dimmed.įor viewers in New Delhi, the eclipse started at 8.45 PM IST on May 5 and went on till 1.02 AM IST on May 6. But that is not the case tonight.īut during last night’s lunar eclipse, the Moon only passed through the faint outer edges of the Earth’s shadow (penumbra). But during an eclipse, if the Moon passes through the dark part of the Earth’s shadow (umbra), it turns into either a partial or a total eclipse, where one part of or the entire Moon will be completely obscured. All eclipses begin and end as penumbral eclipses.

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