@lunardelight.com: 🌘 Partial lunar eclipse over Dakar — 28 August 2026 Earth's shadow covers 93.0% of the Moon's diameter at maximum. That is a deep partial that misses being total by a sliver: a little more and the Moon would have gone fully into the umbra. Unlike a solar eclipse this has no path of totality. The shadow is cast by the whole Earth, so every one of the 198 minutes of partial phase looks the same from anywhere with the Moon in the sky. What Dakar gets is the timing: all 5h38 of it happens before dawn on a single date, from 64° high at first contact down to the horizon — and the last shading leaves the Moon within a minute of the Moon setting. Penumbra 01:23 GMT, umbra 02:33, maximum 04:12 with the Moon 38° up, umbra leaves 05:51 at 16°, penumbra 07:01 as the Moon reaches the horizon. The colour of the shaded part is not shadow but sunlight: every sunrise and sunset on Earth at once, bent into the umbra by the atmosphere, reddened on the way and dimmed by the ozone layer. Here it is computed from that physics rather than picked. 👁 No filters needed — a lunar eclipse is safe to watch with the naked eye. Computed from the JPL DE440s ephemeris. #LunarEclipse #Eclipse2026 #Dakar #Senegal #Astronomy #Skywatching

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