KARACHI: Sky gazers are witnessing a penumbral moon eclipse in Pakistan and other parts of the world today (Saturday), according to Meteorological Department
Abdul Rashid, Director of the Climate Data Processing Centre at the Met ****** said:"In penumbral lunar eclipse, only the more diffused outer shadow of earth falls on the moon’s face. At best, at mid-eclipse, very observant people will **tice dark shading on the moon’s face".
The official said the penumbral lunar eclipse would begin in Pakistan at 03:34 a.m. and would end at 07:53 a.m. with the greatest eclipse happening at 05:44 PST. He said it was a very deep penumbral eclipse with a penumbra magnitude of 0.9884 and umbra magnitude of -0.0354.