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New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Look towards the east after sunset Sunday and you will see upper part of moon’s disk darkened as parts of India witness a partial lunar eclipse.
The lunar eclipse is visible in eastern Asia, Australia, Antarctica, parts of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean, a statement from Ministry of Earth Sciences said Wednesday. This eclipse would be the last one in 2010 for India.

“Visibility in India will be at the end of the eclipse. The ending of the eclipse is visible from the extreme northeastern states at the time of moonrise during the eclipse,” it said.

The initial phase of eclipse will be visible from the central parts of South America, northeastern parts of the US, central parts of Canada and parts of Arctic Ocean while the final phase of the eclipse will be visible from some parts of the Indian Ocean, northeast part of India, China, Mongolia and northeast part of Russia.

The eclipse will last for 2 hour 43 minutes.

According to experts, no filters are required for watching the eclipse.

“One can spot the moon in east direction after sunset. One would see upper part of moon’s disk immersed in earth’s dark shadow and slowly leaving. Whereas people in rest of India may find moon in tinge of lighter shadow of earth,” said N.S. Raghunandan Kumar, general secretary of the Planetary Society.

The next lunar eclipse will occur Dec 21 which will not be visible in India.