News reaching the desk of CEOAFRICA.com is that Nigerians should be expecting total eclipse of the sun by November 3.

It was revealed that around midnight on Friday (today) October 18, 2013, there would be a partial lunar eclipse.

According to facts gathered from Discovery.com and World Time and Date, for the partial lunar eclipse, what viewers can observe is the slight darkening of the moon’s lower part as it passes through the lighter shadow right after it has risen.

The 2013 penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible as well throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia. A report from Discovery.com says: “For observers in Africa, Europe and western Asia, the eclipse will occur in the middle of the night when the moon is high overhead. The partial shading will be visible as the slight reddish dimming of the normally bright full moon.”

According to World Time and Date, the world will experience a solar eclipse on November 3, 2013. Most parts of northern Nigeria, including Kaduna, are expected to experience total solar eclipse but other parts of the country like Lagos, will experience only partial solar eclipse.

The last time Nigeria experienced a total solar eclipse was on March 29, 2006, when most Nigerians watched in amazement as the earth experienced total darkness for a split second.

Sources also revealed that the partial eclipse would be visible in most parts of Nigeria between 10.53 p.m. today and 2.48 a.m. October 19, 2013. During the lunar eclipse, part of the moon will skirt through only the outer edge of the earth’s shadow in what scientists call a penumbral lunar eclipse.