Tunisia witness this Wednesday Partial lunar eclipse

Tunisia, along with many other countries around the world, will see a partial lunar eclipse on Wednesday, September 18, beginning at 1:40 AM and lasting for over four hours. This event was reported by Imen al-Titoi, a professor of scientific supervision at the City of Science in Tunisia.

She told the TAP agency, that the eclipse starts at 1:40 am, with the entrance to the moon into the earthly darkness, which is an invisible stage. Then, the moon enters the shadow of the Earth at 3:12 a.m. and an estimated part of 8 % of the moon will fade during the astronomical phenomenon.

The eclipse reaches its peak at 3:44 am, ends at 4:16 and ends entirely at 5:49 am, according to Al-Tito.

She pointed out that the partial lunar eclipse is the second and last eclipse of 2024 and that it can be observed from the African, European, the American continents, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the  Science City, a set of scientific workshops on cosmic space and the planetarium are planned at the cirt from September 11 to 17.

The Science City in Tunis will follow the rhythm of this astronomical phenomenon, from two in the morning until about four thirty in the morning, employing telescopes to monitor it and broadcast it live on its page of the Facebook social network, According to the professor of scientific supervision.