Hyderabad, July 04: The months of July and August will present a grand spectacle for the skygazers across the country as a rare astronomical event – a series of triple eclipses, commences from July 7.
“The sequence of the first triple eclipse will be a penumbra lunar eclipse (in which the moon will be darkened by the earth’s shadow) occuring on July 7, which will be followed by a solar eclipse on July 22 and then another lunar eclipse on August 7,” N Raghunandan Kumar, General Secretary of city-based Planetary Society, said here today.
“The second penumbra lunar eclipse of the year falling on July 7 will not be visible from India, but the third lunar eclipse on August 7 would be visible in the country,” he said.
Kumar added that the total solar eclipse on July 22 is a life time opportunity for the people in India.
–PTI