{"id":751246,"date":"2026-08-27T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:16:11","slug":"partial-lunar-eclipse-all-you-need-to-know-about-watching-from-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751246\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial lunar eclipse: All you need to know about watching from Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first phase of the eclipse begins at 02:23 BST when the Moon enters the lighter outer part of Earth&#8217;s shadow, known as the penumbra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The much more obvious stage starts at 03:33, as Earth&#8217;s darker central shadow begins moving across the lunar surface, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/in\/uk\/belfast?iso=20260828\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maximum eclipse occurring at 05:12, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Belfast, the Moon will be will be low in the western sky at about nine degrees with the eclipse ending at 06:34.  In Dublin, it will be slightly higher in the sky and last until 06:38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further west, viewers may have slightly longer before the moon disappears.  In Enniskillen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/eclipse\/in\/@11353071?iso=20260828\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moonset is 06:41, external<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This means that visibility will not only depend on cloud cover, but also having an unobstructed view towards the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first phase of the eclipse begins at 02:23 BST when the Moon enters the lighter outer part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}