Pakistani stargazers will be treated to a blood-red Moon when the longest total lunar eclipse in nine years, 2022, illuminates the night sky on September 7-8, 2025. The Moon starts to orbit at 8.28 pm (PST) on Sunday and reaches its darkest, crimson totality between 10.30 pm and 11.52 pm. The entire display ends in the early morning of September 8 at 1:55 am.
This is a very rare heavenly spectacle that will be observed in most of Asia, Pakistan being one of them, Africa, Europe and Australia. According to NASA, more than 6 billion individuals in the world will have the opportunity to view the total eclipse. The Americas will be fully excluded, except for some parts of Hawaii, Alaska and Brazil.
A lunar eclipse is the shadow that Earth casts on the Moon at the time when the Sun and Moon are in perfect alignment. The light that reaches our atmosphere eliminates shorter wavelengths, with only the red light remaining and producing the typical blood-red Moon. The total duration of the eclipse is almost five and a half hours, and the total red portion is 1 hour and 22 minutes.
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According to astronomers, lunar eclipses tend to be followed by the solar eclipses. This will be preceded by a partial solar eclipse September 21 but it will not be seen in Pakistan. As the Moon gradually moves further away each year, this kind of total lunar eclipse will be rarer.
