On April 25 there will be a partial lunar eclipse that will be visible in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia . It is a short-lived eclipse, which will begin at 7:54 p.m. and end at 8:21 p.m. in Universal Time (TU). The twilight eclipse will begin at 6:04 p.m. and end at 11:10 p.m. TU. Its obscuration will be limited, hence we speak of a penumbral eclipse, and the phenomenon can be seen without the need for any optical instrument.
This is the 65th eclipse of the 72 Saros cycle eclipses , known to Chaldean astronomers in ancient times. Each of these cycles contains 223 synodic months (months from one New Moon to the next, with 29.53 days).
April 25 will be the first partial lunar eclipse of 2013, and the second shortest of the 21st century . This year there will be two more lunar eclipses on May 25 and October 18.
