{"id":975,"date":"2017-07-24T05:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T05:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/?p=975"},"modified":"2017-07-24T05:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T05:47:50","slug":"nst-partial-lunar-eclipse-over-msia-on-aug-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/2017\/07\/24\/nst-partial-lunar-eclipse-over-msia-on-aug-7\/","title":{"rendered":"NST: Partial Lunar Eclipse over M&#8217;sia on Aug 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Bernama<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians will have the chance to observe a partial eclipse of the moon for five hours beginning 11.50pm on Aug 7 until 4.50am the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued yesterday, the National Space Agency (Angkasa) said the public could observe the phenomenon better with the help of telescopes and optical instruments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe eclipse will begin with a penumbra phase at 11.50pm on Aug 7, which will end at 4.50am the next morning. The partial eclipse\u2019s maximum phase will be at 2.20am,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The partial eclipse of the moon occurs when the sun\u2019s rays are partially blocked by earth. The last time Malaysia saw a partial eclipse of the moon was in March last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/07\/259363\/partial-lunar-eclipse-over-msia-aug-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/07\/259363\/partial-lunar-eclipse-over-msia-aug-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Bernama &nbsp; KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians will have the chance to observe a partial eclipse of the moon for five hours beginning 11.50pm on Aug 7 until 4.50am the following day. In a statement issued yesterday, the National Space Agency (Angkasa) said the public could observe the phenomenon better with the help of telescopes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hasrinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}