Nigeria will witness a total lunar eclipse with other countries of the world on Monday, says National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).
The head, media and public communications of the agency, Felix Alle, said this in a statement on Friday.
“There will be a lunar eclipse over Nigeria on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019,” he said.
“The eclipse, expected to be total, will begin in the evening of Sunday and end on Monday. The eclipse will start across Nigeria in the early hours of Monday at approximately 3:36 am to reach its maximum
at 6:12am and end at about 6:43am.
“The total duration of the occurrence over Nigeria will be three hours and 15 minutes.”
Alle further said, the lunar eclipse would, by 4.33am, become a partial eclipse, where the moon would start getting red.
He also revealed that “at exactly 5.41am, a maximum eclipse of the moon which may be visible to human sight will be witnessed, while the moon eclipse is expected to end at 6.43am”.
