{"id":207,"date":"2011-06-14T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-06-14T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:23:56","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/astronomy\/total-lunar-eclipse-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First Total Lunar Eclipse of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_210\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/188214main1_Michael-Daugherty-250px1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-210\" title=\"188214main1_Michael-Daugherty-250px\" src=\"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/188214main1_Michael-Daugherty-250px1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2008 Lunar Eclipse<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thats right star gazers, the first total lunar eclipse of 2011 occurs Wednesday at about 1:24p.m. EDT (1724 GMT) and will last until 7:00 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).\u00a0 This eclipse will be visible Wednesday evening for eastern South America, western Europe, and the west coast of Africa.\u00a0 Thursday in the wee hours of the morning this eclipse will be visible to\u00a0 central Siberia, eastern Mongolia, northeast China,<!--more--> most of Japan, Korea, New Guinea, eastern Australia, and New Zealand.\u00a0 It will not, though, be visible to North America nor will eastern Australia, eastern Asia, or New Zealand get to see it through to the last stages because it occurs after moon-set.\u00a0 This lunar eclipse is one of three to occur in June with the last eclipse scheduled for July 1st.\u00a0 This is a <em>total<\/em> eclipse which is sandwich between the partial that happened June 1st and the partial scheduled for July1st.\u00a0 In 100 years there have only been three with the totality period as long as this one and it&#8217;s the longest total eclipse in the last 11years. The totality period for Wednesday&#8217;s lunar eclipse will be close to 100 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For further reading please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2011\/0613\/Lunar-eclipse-first-of-2011-occurs-Weds\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thats right star gazers, the first total lunar eclipse of 2011 occurs Wednesday at about 1:24p.m. EDT (1724 GMT) and will last until 7:00 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT).\u00a0 This eclipse will be visible Wednesday evening for eastern South America, western Europe, and the west coast of Africa.\u00a0 Thursday in the wee hours of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[171],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverybuzz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}