What time will the lunar eclipse occur in the Philippines?
Hi Kevin! You’ll have a total eclipse of the moon in the Philippines the evening of Tuesday the 28th. Since the partial eclipse starts before the moon comes up in the Philippines, you’ll be joining the celestial spectacle in progress. The east coast of Mindanao might just see a glimmer of bright moon at about 5:50 p.m. Philippines Time for a couple of minutes before the total eclipse starts. On Luzon and the rest of the country, the moon rises totally eclipsed. In the bright dusk sky,you won’t at first be able to see the eclipsed lunar disc at all. About 20 to 30 minutes after sunset, however, you’ll begin to make out the ghostly appearance of the eclipsed moon. It will at first be gray, not red, but as the sky darkens, you should begin to see just a hint of ruddiness. At 7:23 p.m. Philippines Time, the moon begins to leave the earth’s umbra, when you’ll start to see a bright bit of the moon above the eastern horizon. You then have about an hour of the partial eclipse, until the moon l
