(Oranjestad)—Aruba Astro Research Int. wants to inform the community that tonight, Tuesday night, September 17, 2024, a Partial Lunar Eclipse of Saros 118 will occur, covering North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Europe.
In Aruba, the partial eclipse will begin at 10:12 PM, with the maximum eclipse at 10:44 PM, and it will end at 11:16 PM. The penumbral phase will conclude at 12:47 AM on the early morning of Wednesday, September 18, 2024, here in Aruba. Aruba Astro Research Int. will cover the event by taking photos, making recordings, and attempting to broadcast the event through images via AAR’s Facebook webpage. The event will also be transmitted on TOP FM 95.1 during the program Hit Express in the Astro News segment.
The shadow that will cover the moon’s surface will be only 8% at the edge of the moon. As the moon will be full and a supermoon on September 17, 2024, at 10:34 PM AST (Atlantic Standard Time, local time in Aruba) and 2:34 AM UTC (four hours ahead of our region), this celestial event of a partial lunar eclipse will take place in the south as the moon transits the southern sky, and it will also be a supermoon. We hope the weather will cooperate, and clouds will not block the view. This will be a very limited partial eclipse, with only 8% shadow coverage, making it one of the most limited eclipses in history for Earth’s shadow.
