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Keen star-gazers watch lunar eclipse
Friday night’s was a penumbral lunar eclipse that occurs when sun, moon and earth are in a straight alignment
KARACHI: The people in several parts of the country witnessed a penumbral lunar eclipse when the moon started passing through the outer edge of the earth’s shadow at 9:55pm on Friday. A complete eclipse was witnessed at 11:55pm and it culminated at 1:54am in Pakistan, Meteorological Department officials said. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, the earth and the moon align in an almost straight line. When this happens, the earth blocks some of the sun’s light from directly reaching the moon’s surface, and covers a part of the moon with the outer part of its shadow, also k**wn as penumbra. “Penumbral lunar eclipse is **t visible through naked eye as the moon passes through the outer edge of the earth’s shadow,” Director Met ****** Karachi Abdur Rashid told The News. He said the full moon eclipse is k**wn as Umbra, which occurs when the dark shadow of the earth falls on the moon, but this phe**me**n did **t happen on the night between Friday and Saturday. أكثر... 
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