Supermoon,Bluemoon and total lunar eclipse will coincide today between 5:30pm to 9pm.It can be seen through binoculars or naked eye in Lucknow.
In Lucknow it will be seen at Regional Science City,Aliganj between 6pm to 8pm and at Clock tower between 5:30pm to 9pm.Such an event was last witnessed over a century ago.It will be a bigger moon which will be copper red or blood moon.
Special arrangements are being made at clock tower at Indira Gandhi Planetorium.The celestial event begins at 5:18pm.
Blue moon means Second full moon in a month.
Supermoon means moon is bigger and brighter than usual.
It is after 174 years that total lunar eclipse is coinciding with both these phenominon.
Sumit Kumar Srivastava of Indira Gandhi planetorium said in Asia,the last Blue moon and total lunar eclipse occurred on DEcember30,1982.Stargazers will have to wait till 2037 to witness it again.It is also being called Super blue blood moon.It will be for 76.4 minutes in the city.
He said it is being called Blood moon as during total lunar eclipse some of the sun's rays get refracted through earth's atmosphere and strike the moon which takes a red glow.Blue moon occurs in areas where volcanic eruptions are active.It is rare.
