Lunar Eclipse @ Gerhana Bulan

SubhanALLAH~
Total eclipse of the Moon, 2011 June 15/16

This eclipse of the Moon is at the full moon between two partial solar eclipses. As a consequence it is a deep total eclipse, with the moon passing almost centrally through the Earth's shadow. This will result in a long and probably dark total eclipse. The duration of totality is slightly over 100 minutes. From start to finish the eclipse lasts just over five and a half hours.

From New Zealand only the first part of the eclipse is visible, the Moon setting during the total phase. The Moon starts entering the penumbral (partial) shadow of the Earth just before 5.25 am on the morning of June 16. Little change will be evident for much of the following hour until the Moon begins to move into the umbral (complete) shadow almost an hour later at 6.23 am. Over the next hour the zone of darkness will spread across the moon until at 7.22 am the total eclipse begins. By then the Moon will be getting very low to the west in NZ. From Auckland it will be just over 1° above the horizon, Wellington 3°, Christchurch just under 6° Dunedin 8° and Invercargill nearly 10°.

For all parts of New Zealand, except places south of Timaru, the Moon will set before the time of mid eclipse, 8:13 am. At Dunedin it will set 10 minutes later and Invercargill 20 minutes later. Times of moonset for a few places further north are 7.34 at Auckland, 7.26 at Gisborne, 7.54 at Wellington and 8.05 at Christchurch.
Australia is better placed for viewing the eclipse, but even there the Moon will set before the end of the eclipse in most parts except the west. The best places for seeing the entire eclipse are much of Africa and much of Asia from the Red Sea to India.

Assalamualaikum, fenomena gerhana bulan penuh akan berlaku di angkasaraya Malaysia pada 16/6/2011 di antara jam 1.00 – 7.00 am. Pada waktu itu kedudukan bumi, bulan dan matahari berada di dalam keadaan selari. 3 hari sebelum gerhana bulan separa pada 12/1/2010 berlaku gempa bumi besar di Haiti yang membunuh 500 ribu manusia. Gempa bumi di Christhurch, New Zealand, Sulawesi dan Sumatera pula berlaku beberapa hari sebelum gerhana bulan penuh 16/6/2011. Fenomena gerhana bulan sering mempunyai kaitan dengan gempa bumi. Inilah kebesaran Allah SWT yang mesti kita diam sesaat memikirkan seperti sabda Rasulullah SAW : Sesungguhnya matahari dan bulan adalah tanda dari tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah. Kedua-duanya tidak gerhana disebabkan matinya seseorang atau disebabkan lahirnya. Tetapi kedua duanya merupakan dua tanda dari tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah menakutkan hamba-hambanya. Apabila engkau melihat perkara tersebut hendaklah engkau solat dan berdoa sehingga gerhana itu hilang pada padangan”. (HR. Bukhari dari Abi Barkah). Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk sujud memohon keampunan di saat gerhana bulan penuh. Bagi yang ada ruang masa sila ikuti program Agensi Angkasa Negara di perkarangan luar Masjid Negara bermula jam 1.00 am dengan berbagai aktiviti antaranya melihat dengan teropong fenomena gerhana bulan penuh dan solat sunat gerhana (kusuf),pada malam ini.

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InsyaALLAH, di New Zealand dijangka gerhana bulan akan berlaku antara pukul 7 hingga 9 pagi.
Jadi kepada kawan2 yang harus pergi ke Uni utk sesi Skype, marilah kita sama-sama kuatkan diri supaya dapat sujud dan rukuk kepada ALLAH swt diatas kebesaranNYA ini. InsyaALLAH.