This follows a lunar eclipse that resulted in a blood moon on September 8.<\/p>\n
Holt Planetarium director Bruce Ngataierua said the partial eclipse would be visible from about 5.41am and finish by 8.36am with the moon covering 61% of the sun. <\/p>\n
A solar eclipse above Katikati in Bay of Plenty in 2012.<\/p>\n
However, MetService meteorologist Katie Hillyer has bad news for keen stargazers. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunately not looking very good for Hawke\u2019s Bay, it\u2019s not looking very good for most of New Zealand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there will be a fair bit of cloud about … but it is the sort of cloud that sometimes we get some reasonable gaps in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d maybe pop it at about a 10 to 20% chance that people get a glimpse of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
More would be known closer to the time, she said.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not all bad news for sun enthusiasts.<\/p>\n
The spring equinox will occur on Tuesday at 6.19am, bringing longer daylight hours.<\/p>\n
September 1 is widely accepted as the first day of meteorological spring in New Zealand but, astronomically speaking, it begins when the sun crosses the celestial equator from south to north, and day and night are of nearly equal length across the Earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo if you think about the increase and decrease in daylight hours, it follows like a wave pattern,\u201d Hillyer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the spring equinox will be when we\u2019ve reached that peak of gaining the most amount of minutes on to our daylight hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it will start to flow from there as we head towards the longest day of the year [on December 22].\u201d<\/p>\n
Hillyer said to expect longer days and hopefully warmer and sunnier weather after the equinox.<\/p>\n
Highs of between 19C and 21C are predicted for Hawke\u2019s Bay throughout the week.<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in Britain, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This follows a lunar eclipse that resulted in a blood moon on September 8. Holt Planetarium director Bruce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1561,1972,6162,5676,2082,1976,29529,29530,7810,9878,1304,111,139,69,8205,147,4166,392,9880,3608],"class_list":["post-30685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-bay","tag-block","tag-cloud","tag-eclipse","tag-for","tag-hawkes","tag-hoping","tag-luck","tag-may","tag-monday","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rare","tag-science","tag-solar","tag-space","tag-view","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}