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The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight
An anonymous reader writes "People on the West Coast should be able to watch the beginning of the upcoming total lunar eclipse tonight at 10:20 pm. The entirety of the moon surface will be in Earth's shadow and start to glow red a couple hours later, a little after midnight. From the article: 'A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, moon, and Earth align so that Earth's shadow falls across the moon's surface. Monday night's lunar eclipse is a total eclipse, which means Earth's shadow will cover the moon completely. The moon won't be blacked out by our planet's shadow. Instead, it will take on a reddish hue — anywhere from a bright copper to the brownish red of dried blood.'"
I love it when information gives the time of day but not the time zone. Is this 10:20 PM in Eastern Australia or U. S. EDT or what?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
I'll be watching the eclipse from the catwalk of a 3.5 meter telescope while said telescope shoots a laser at the moon and bounces the beam off of five retroreflectors. Weather permitting. It's awesome having a wife who's an astronomer/PhD.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
Is in TV, or YouTube, on a big LCD.
The out-of-doors is alright for some chaps. That's why we allow them to be game preserve wardens, and North Sea rig crews.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
it's a f'in LUNAR ECLIPSE.
What is it with everyone suddenly having the need to give natural events cutsie, abstract, or dramatic names? Kinda like when the media started calling larger than average full moons Super Moons, or any cold spell in winter the 'polar vortex'.
The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight
...is with your eyes, at the appropriate time. Don't bother looking earlier; it won't have happened yet! Similarly, if you try to catch the eclipse after it's finished, you'll just see an ordinary full moon.
Get it? Got it? Good.
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http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2014.html#LE2014Apr15T
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows."
- Mark 13:31-32
What annoys me is that this is happening on a weeknight. Seriously??? Can't anyone think this sort of thing through??? The majority of interested parties have either work or school the next day.
We need to petition to get these events to happen on weekends, so people can stay up late for them without severe disruption of their lives.
Total lunar eclipses are a common occurrence, and almost always have the "blood moon" look from red light refracting around the Earth.
Outside. At night. Awake.
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Where else would be more appropriate? A glance out the window, then back to the bears and spriggans.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
I've actually seen a blood-red moon. It was when there were many forest fires around. I assume it is the thick smoke in the atmosphere that causes this phenomenon... dq
Won't you feel silly when all non-basic lands turn into mountains tonight.
we should kick them off Terra
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That is an excellent line, sadly I'll probably fail to remember it. Much thanks.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
This is an unusual event because its part of a series of 4 lunar eclipses in a row (in subsequent 6 full moon cycles), a tetrad which occurs once per 33 years on average. The term 'blood moon' is sometimes used for a lunar eclipse, but it's been popularised for this tetrad by John Hagee to promote his book and claim that it means the end of the world.
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Face it, if you can't do it right, you might as well not do it at all.
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I cannot seem to find which direction it is? North? East? West? South? I hope to see it from east of L.A. with its light pollutions. :(
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Or it could be simple hubris. A lot of religious leaders seem to have trouble telling themselves and their deity apart.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
If Stephenie Meyer finds out about the "Blood Moon", there's sure to be another one of those horrible Twilight movies.
Please, God, no.
no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen,
So all I have to do is write a cron script:
...and the world will never end. Problem solved -- well THAT was easy.
0 * * * * echo "I Predict The World Will End This Very Hour" | mail -s "IMPORTANT -- READ THIS NOW" Pope@Vatican.va God@Whitehouse.gov GodJr@Heaven.com
- Paul Cron:5 - Crontab:5
For my next act: Whirled Peas, anyone?
Really: the only thing that actually upsets me about the EotW people are the idiots that actually want to help make it happen.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I'm stuck spending the night at an 8.3-meter with a bunch of people who're tinkering with something called "Visible Aperture Masking Polarimetric Interferometer for Resolving Exoplanetary Signatures” - VAMPIRES for short. Unfortunately, we're not lasering the moon, or doing spectroscopy of it during totality like we did last eclipse (you can measure elemental abundances and pollutants in Earth's atmosphere that way, nifty). But at least we're somewhere that it all happens 2 hours earlier in the evening than on the west coast. :)
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
...in which case a Google Bus is going to appear out of nowhere and park between you and the moon, completely blocking your view.
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