for people who missed #SuperBloodMoon pic.twitter.com/C62NnbQLad
— anna (@_annacarey_) September 28, 2015 Mrs. Poteet took aim with her camera in the Paul Poteet Dot Com backyard.
There *could* be some breaks in the clouds this evening…but just in case, I’m posting a bunch of links to places where you can view tonight’s Lunar Eclipse online.
Why the fuss? First: it’s a harvest moon. That’s the name of the full moon that falls closest to the autumn equinox. Second: “Blood Moon” is just a term used sometimes used to describe a Total Lunar Eclipse. When the Earth casts its shadow on a Full Moon and eclipses it, the Moon may get a red glow.
But here’s the drama: it’s a so-called “Supermoon.” It’s “super” because the moon is at “perigee”, its shortest distance from the Earth, and appears 14 per cent larger and 30 per cent brighter than when it is at its furthermost point. (Apogee.) A super moon happens fairly frequently, but the last time this coincided with a lunar eclipse, when the moon is covered by the Earth’s shadow, was in 1982.
Wow…1982 was a long time ago.
It won’t happen again until 2033.
ONLINE VIEWING
The Marshall Space Flight Center
Sky & Telescope
Virtual Telescope
University of Arizona’s SkyCenter
Slooh Community Observatory]]>
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