{"id":828,"date":"2025-09-05T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:14:08","slug":"lunar-eclipse-set-to-be-visible-in-ireland-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/828\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar eclipse set to be visible in Ireland over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep partial eclipse of the Moon is set to be visible in Ireland on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy Ireland has said that the lunar eclipse will be visible at sunset from 8pm to 9.30pm, with the east coast the best location to catch it.<\/p>\n<p>However, stargazers will have to hope for clear skies to get a good glimpse of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>David Moore of Astronomy Ireland said the next total eclipse of the Moon will not be visible from Ireland until New Year&#8217;s Eve in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth moves directly between the Moon and the Sun. It blocks out the sunlight and casts a shadow across the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>It causes the Moon to carry a dark reddish hue, sometimes referred to as a &#8216;blood moon\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/brainstorm\/2025\/0904\/1531853-look-up-a-guide-to-the-irish-night-sky-in-autumn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Look up: A guide to the Irish night sky in autumn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current forecast from Met \u00c9ireann for Sunday night predicts some showers mainly on the Atlantic fringes but long, clear spells elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moore said on 12 August next year, there will be a almost-total solar eclipse, that will see 90% of the sun covered.<\/p>\n<p>This is a &#8220;totally different phenomenon&#8221;, he said, as the landscape will dim and temperatures will drop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has not been a total solar eclipse on Irish soil since 1724 and there will not be another one until 2090,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deep partial eclipse of the Moon is set to be visible in Ireland on Sunday night. Astronomy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}