{"id":83221,"date":"2011-12-11T00:57:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/12\/11\/total-lunar-eclipse-enthrall-enthusiasts\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T00:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T00:57:20","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-enthrall-enthusiasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/11\/total-lunar-eclipse-enthrall-enthusiasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Total lunar eclipse enthrall enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/EAQXEVTJKSHWGKBLDSQD.jpg>The last total lunar eclipse of 2011 Saturday night left many enthusiasts spellbound in Nagaland and the entire country with the celestial spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>In Dimapur, people were seen anxiously waiting on the terraces to see the longest eclipse (52 mins) till the year 2018 next.<br \/>\n\u201cThe lunar eclipse started at 5.2 p.m. and could be seen with naked eyes,\u201d director of Nehru Planetarium, N Rathnasree told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>The maximum eclipse was seen at 20:01:50 p.m. IST. hile the noticeable Umbra phase began at 6.15 p.m. In Nagaland the eclipse ended by 9.48 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The sunlight passing through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere gave the lunar surface a deep reddish hue. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth in course of its orbit around the sun, comes between the moon and sun in such a way that moon is hidden in the shadow cast by earth.<\/p>\n<p>This can occur only when the sun, earth and moon are aligned in a straight line, C. B. Devgun of Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) said. <br \/>\n(With PTI inputs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last total lunar eclipse of 2011 Saturday night left many enthusiasts spellbound in Nagaland and the entire country with the celestial spectacle. In Dimapur, people were seen anxiously waiting on the terraces to see the longest eclipse (52 mins) till the year 2018 next. \u201cThe lunar eclipse started at 5.2 p.m. and could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}