{"id":436,"date":"2022-05-22T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/nigeria-others-witness-lunar-eclipse-today-nigeria-the-guardian-nigeria-news-nigeria-and-world-news-guardian-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-05-22T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:53:06","slug":"nigeria-others-witness-lunar-eclipse-today-nigeria-the-guardian-nigeria-news-nigeria-and-world-news-guardian-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, others witness lunar eclipse today \u2014 Nigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News &#8211; Guardian Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTO: www.express.co.uk<br \/>Center for Basic Space Science and Astronomy (CBSSA), Nsukka, Enugu State, says the first total lunar eclipse for 2022 will happen globally in the early hours of today, May 16.                                <br \/>Centre Director, Dr. Bonaventure Okere, stated that the lunar eclipse would be visible from across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, as well as in several other countries of Africa, North and South America, Europe and parts of Asia.\t<br \/>He added that the lunar eclipse has remained one of the most interesting astronomical events\/phenomena for sky-watchers globally over the years.\t <br \/>The natural phenomenon, according to him, occurs \u201cwhen the Earth blocks the Sun\u2019s light, which otherwise would have struck and reflect off the moon\u2019s surface. In other words, the moon passes into the umbra\/deep shadow of the Earth.\t <br \/>\u201cWhen this happens, the short-wavelength light from our planet is scattered\/absorbed while the light of longer wavelength (red colour) is refracted around the edges of the atmosphere while falling upon the moon\u2019s surface, thereby turning the moon reddish in colour (the Blood Moon).\u201d\t<br \/>Follow Us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/nigeria-others-witness-lunar-eclipse-today\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTO: www.express.co.ukCenter for Basic Space Science and Astronomy (CBSSA), Nsukka, Enugu State, says the first total lunar eclipse for 2022 will happen globally in the early hours of today, May 16. Centre Director, Dr. Bonaventure Okere, stated that the lunar eclipse would be visible from across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria, others witness lunar eclipse today \u2014 Nigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News - Guardian Nigeria - City Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=436\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria, others witness lunar eclipse today \u2014 Nigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News - Guardian Nigeria City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria, others witness lunar eclipse today \u2014 Nigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News - Guardian Nigeria City Watch %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=436\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100083282987806\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-22T14:53:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-32.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"759\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=436#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=436\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/6f3e02bc6483df72f5abc6e9624d0cc8\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria, others witness lunar eclipse today \u2014 Nigeria \u2014 The Guardian Nigeria News \u2013 Nigeria and World News &#8211; 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