Supermoon and partial lunar eclipse "Tonight would have been worth a trip to the heights"
A full moon close to the Earth with a partial eclipse: the Earth's satellite was a double eye-catcher in the early morning.
Because of its non-circular orbit, there was a full moon particularly close to our home planet - accordingly, it appeared unusually large, as it did here in the Taunus in the evening.
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The weather forecast was good - and so were the chances of getting a good view of the moon.
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The moon's disk was darkened at the top right.
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The full moon shone brightly over the dome of the Reichstag building.
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Because of its non-circular orbit, there was a full moon particularly close to our home planet - accordingly, it appeared unusually large, as it did here in the Taunus in the evening.
Image: dpa
The weather forecast was good - and so were the chances of getting a good view of the moon.
Image: dpa
The moon's disk was darkened at the top right.
Image: dpa
The full moon shone brightly over the dome of the Reichstag building.
Image: dpa
The moon offered a double spectacle early this morning. Due to its non-circular orbit, there was a full moon particularly close to our home planet - and also a partial lunar eclipse.
"Tonight would have been worth a trip to the heights", writes Meteo Switzerland on the short news service X.
"The moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical path and therefore comes close to it once a month. Sometimes this coincides with the full moon," Uwe Pilz, Chairman of the Association of Stargazers based in Bensheim in southern Hesse, told the German Press Agency.
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As the stargazers had predicted, the moon's disk should be darkened between 4.13 and 5.16 a.m. in the upper right-hand corner. This partial lunar eclipse would be best seen at around 4.44 a.m., it was said in advance. During such an event, the moon crosses the Earth's orbit at the time of the full moon and partially enters the planet's umbra.
Weather prospects were good
According to Meteo Switzerland and the Hamburg Planetarium, however, only 9.1 percent of the moon should be covered. The rest of the moon's disk will appear to be covered by a grey veil, they said.
(SDA)
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