{"id":39013,"date":"2021-11-18T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/blood-micromoon-new-zealand-to-enjoy-partial-lunar-eclipse-not-seen-for-800-years"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:42:35","slug":"blood-micromoon-new-zealand-to-enjoy-partial-lunar-eclipse-not-seen-for-800-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39013","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood micromoon\u2019: New Zealand to enjoy partial lunar eclipse not seen for 800 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazers will be able to see longest partial eclipse visible from New Zealand since 1212<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders looking to the sky on Friday night will be treated to an incredibly rare lunar spectacle, not seen in their sky in more than 800 years.<\/p>\n<p>The longest partial lunar eclipse visible in New Zealand since the year 1212 is set to start at 8.20pm NZT, when the shadow of the Earth will begin to move across the moon\u2019s face. It will be 97% covered with shadow by 10pm. At that moment, the lunar surface will briefly turn red. The near-total eclipse will finish its three-and-a-half-hour journey just prior to midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/blood-micromoon-new-zealand-to-enjoy-partial-lunar-eclipse-not-seen-for-800-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazers will be able to see longest partial eclipse visible from New Zealand since 1212New Zealanders looking to the sky on Friday night will be treated to an incredibly rare lunar spectacle, not seen in their sky in more than 800 years.The longest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,352,56,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lunar-eclipses","category-new-zealand","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39014,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39013\/revisions\/39014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}