A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth strikes in between the Sun and the Moon, partially or fully blocking daylight from reaching the Moon. This causes a shadow on the Moon’s floor, which is what we see from Earth.

During a complete photo voltaic eclipse, some daylight will nonetheless attain the Moon. This gentle will cross by way of the Earth’s environment, the place blue gentle shall be scattered in all instructions because of a phenomenon often called Rayleigh scattering. This permits the redder gentle to cross by way of and replicate off the Moon, inflicting it to seem reddish in the course of the eclipse.

According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, throughout moonrise within the Eastern components of the nation, together with Kolkata and Guwahati, the whole section of the eclipse shall be in progress. But for different cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru, totality would have ended by the point of Moonrise. The eclipse shouldn’t be at the moment seen in India since it’s nonetheless daytime, however you possibly can watch it within the stay stream under