Reports quoted from the Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), has revealed that Nigeria will join other countries of the world to experience a total lunar eclipse on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019.
Felix Alle, head, media and public communications of the agency, said this in a statement over the weekend. He observed that lunar eclipse is a celestial incident where the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth’s shadow. It occurs only when the sun and the moon are exactly aligned with the earth between the two.
“There will be a lunar eclipse over Nigeria on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. 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,” the statement noted.