Total Lunar Eclipse Tuesday 8 November 2022

This week’s Total Lunar Eclipse for Norfolk Island is on 8-9 November 2022. I hope the skies are clear on Tuesday night, 8 November, for the Total Lunar Eclipse. It will be an exciting event for Norfolk Island for everyone !!!!.

I have checked out the internet and the approximate time for Friday evening, fingers crossed we get to see the Lunar Eclipse.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/norfolk-island/kingston

• Penumbral eclipse begins 8.02pm

• Duration: 5 hours, 54 minutes,

• Partial begins: Nov 19 at 9:09pm

• Total Eclipse begins Nov 8 at 10:16pm

• Maximum: Nov 8 at 10:59pm

• Total ends Nov 8 at 11:41pm

• Partial ends: Nov 9 at 12:49am

• Penumbral ends: Nov 9 1:56am

• Times shown in local time (NFDT)

Lunar eclipses are safe to view with the unaided eye. Binoculars and telescopes enhance the view, but aren’t required. The November 8, 2022, total lunar eclipse will be visible across Asia, Australia, the Americas and the Pacific. It’ll be early morning for North America.

This week I am away in New Zealand, so I may miss watching all of the eclipse as New Zealand total eclipse is around midnight, plus there will be more light pollution which may spoil the view we are privileged to have on Norfolk Island.

In May last year I photographed the Lunar Eclipse but had issues with dew on my camera lens. In 2014 I managed to capture the entire Full Eclipse which was very rewarding, and I entered my photographs in an astronomical competition in New Zealand and was rewarded with a prize.

Check out this link for information about the eclipse and at the end of the article is information about how to take photos of a lunar eclipse, which you can also post to their New Zealand astronomy page.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/total-lunar-eclipse-nov8-2022/

How to take photos of a lunar eclipse. & Submit your photo to EarthSky here.

An Eclipse Never Comes Alone!

The current October-November 2022 eclipse season

A solar eclipse always occurs about two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse.

Usually, there are two eclipses in a row, but other times, there are three during the same eclipse season.

The first was a partial solar eclipse, 25 October 2022 not seen from Norfolk Island.

This is the second eclipse this season this week’s Lunar Eclipse on 8/9 November 2022.

In 2023 we have another April-May eclipse season

20 April 2023 Partial Solar Eclipse, -

Total Solar Eclipse South/East Asia, Australia, Pacific, Indian Ocean, Antarctica

Penumbral lunar eclipse on May 5-6, 2023

The October-November 2023 eclipse season includes

Annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023,

Partial lunar eclipse on October 28-29, 2023

I read that the next Full Lunar Eclipse visible on Norfolk Island is not until 2025

14 March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse Much of Europe, Much of Asia, Much of Australia, Much of Africa, North America, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Antarctica

This internet site as interesting information and dates and time for future and past events.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/norfolk-island/kingston

Good luck viewing the Total Lunar Eclipse, I hope you enjoy Norfolk Island Magical Dark Skies. Good luck if you are taking photos, fingers crossed the skies stay clear for the November Lunar Eclipse

Betty Matthews

November 2022