Dear Editor,
Thanks for publishing my eclipse notice in SN 2025-02-10. However, your headline, “Once in a lifetime moon eclipse in early hours Friday morning, March 14, 2025”, is misleading. I was encouraging readers to take the trouble to experience the eclipse at least once in a lifetime, not designating a once in a lifetime occurrence.
There can be as many as 7 eclipses in a single calendar year visible from Earth, more of the Sun than of the Moon, but the Moon’s are easier to see, because they are generally visible everywhere so long as the Moon is above the horizon. This Friday’s lunar eclipse can be seen in its entirety, clouds permitting. The next one visible to us is actually next year March 3, but many of the desirable events of an eclipse are missing. That is why I only announced June 25, 2029 as the date of the next one visible in its entirety.
Eclipses like we see are unique in our solar system, because no planet is placed like the Earth so that its Moons, however many, can cover the Sun so spectacularly.
Sincerely,
Alfred Bhulai
