Chairman of the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research Hatem Auda assured there will be a total lunar eclipse tomorrow December 10. This eclipse will be the second and last lunar eclipse of the year of 2011. It will be seen in Europe, East Africa, the U.S, the Pacific Ocean, eastern Philippines and Northern Asia. It will last for 51 minutes and eight seconds according to accounts of astronomical institutes. Auda said the lunar eclipse will coincide with the new Islamic month, Moharam, of the current Islamic year 1433. The year of 2011 witnessed three other solar eclipses on January 4, June 1 and July 1. Two of the eclipses did not appear in Egypt. There were also two lunar eclipses in June and December. Solar and lunar eclipses can be used to account the beginning and the end of Islamic months.