The event coincided with perigee, that is, the moment when our satellite is closest to Earth, at 357,362 km. The eclipse could be seen for about 15 minutes from various regions of North America, Latin America and Southeast Asia, coinciding with the largest and brightest supermoon of the year.
This is one of the millions of images that we can enjoy today on social networks of the fantastic total lunar eclipse that took place on May 26 and that we were not lucky enough to see from Spain. The image is by the astrophysicist and scientific communicator Ángel López-Sánchez @El_Lobo_Rayado. All the data were taken during the 4-hour ONLINE event “Astronomical conversations under the eclipsed moon” that this astrophysicist organized with the “Andalusian Astronomy Network” (RAdA), “Astronomic Group of Córdoba” (AAC), “Language Association and “Spanish” Culture (ALCE) from Australia and “Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific” (SRAP-IEAP), which was followed by many schools in Spain.
Astronomer Michael Brown of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, also took several photographs of the progressive eclipse with his smartphone. “Got some red in the lunar eclipse,” Brown tweeted with this image.
The Uruguayan landscape and night sky photographer, Fefo Boouvier, also uploaded some beautiful photographs of how the lunar eclipse was seen from Colonia del Sacramento to his social networks.
The Director of the Otago Museum, PhD in astronomy and passionate about stars and auroras, Ian Griffin, also shared his captures from New Zealand on his Twitter account.
When will the next total lunar eclipse be? We will have to wait until May 16, 2022 to see the next lunar eclipse in full. For this occasion, it will be visible from Spain, although it will be necessary to get up early or go to bed late, for this. The total eclipse of the Moon will begin at 03:32; the maximum eclipse will take place at 06:11 when the Moon is at an altitude of 7 ° and the event will end at 08:51 am.
