The lunar eclipse begins in Baghdad


The lunar eclipse, the latest of its kind this year, was witnessed by the capital Baghdad on Monday.

The lunar eclipse is a cosmic phenomenon that occurs when the earth is located between the sun and the moon. The earth turns away from the moon and here is called a total eclipse, or obscures a part of it called a partial eclipse.

The conditions of the eclipse that the moon must be in the case of completion or the so-called full and the middle of the month of the Hijri as a prerequisite."

"The lunar eclipse begins at 8:22, 15 seconds, Baghdad time, and here the part of the moon's light begins to disappear, and its eclipse peak is at twenty-nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, and the largest fraction of the moon is 25 percent of the total moon, It ends at 10, 18 minutes and nine seconds.

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