By: Nour ElHoda Fouad
CAIRO, Dec. 3 (SEE) - The National Research Institute Of Astronomy & Geophysics, at Helwan city, announced that Egypt will witness in the next month, January 2019, a unique incident of what is so called ‘Bloody Moon’.
The ‘Bloody Moon’ is the result of a total eclipse of the moon which is not expected to repeat again until 2021.
The institute added that this time the eclipse will be different because the moon will be in its full size and closest point to the earth, a phenomenon called ‘Supermoon’.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind Earth and into its shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned, with Earth between the other two.
The term “Bloody Moon” is referred to the reddish color a totally eclipsed Moon takes on to observers on Earth. As sunlight penetrates the atmosphere of Earth, the gaseous layer filters and refracts the rays in such a way that the green to violet wavelengths on the visible spectrum scatter more strongly than the red, thus giving the Moon a reddish cast.
The forecasted eclipse is expected to be visible to the Gulf region.
Egypt witnessed a total eclipse in last July 28th, which was the longest period ever happened in the 21st century. It lasted for an hour and 43 minutes, and was followed by interested people, clearly, from above house roofs. The phenomenon was also aired by many Tv channels and news wires, especially NASA.
Some people are linking those phenomena with major incidents in the world such as wars or natural disasters, where some link them to the approachment of the end day, as for instance, the Bible which mentioned that when the end day comes, the sun turns into dark and the moon into blood. Some astronomers link those incidents to major impacts that would happen for each horoscope.
On other hand, it’s a religious occasion for some Muslims who would perform the so called ‘eclipse prayer’, a two rak’aa prayer, affirmatively traced to Prophet Muhammed’s sunna
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