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How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com)
Stephanie Pappas reports via Live Science how you can watch Wednesday's "Super Blue Blood Moon" eclipse: The eclipse will occur in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, Jan. 31, when the full moon will pass through the Earth's shadow. Viewers on Earth will see the face of the moon turn a murky red. On the West Coast, totality (the full shading of the moon) will occur at 4:51 a.m. PST until 6:08 a.m. PST. Before that, the moon will enter the outer portion of the Earth's shadow, or penumbra, at 2:51 a.m. PST. The real show will become visible starting at 3:48 a.m. PST, when the moon will be entering the umbra, or central portion of Earth's shadow, and a dark shadow will move over the face of the moon. The moon will leave the umbra at 7:11 a.m. PST. East Coasters can catch the partial lunar eclipse before dawn, but they will miss totality because the moon will have set below the horizon by 7:06 a.m. EST. To see the shadow of the Earth become visible on the moon's face, look up at 6:31 a.m. EST; by 6:48 a.m. EST, the moon will be entering the umbra, or central portion of the shadow, which should make the color change more apparent.
For viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, the moon will set either during the total eclipse or while the satellite is exiting the Earth's shadow. The moon enters the dark umbra at about 5:48 a.m. CST and will hit totality slightly before moonset, at 6:51 a.m. CST. The umbra will appear at 4:48 a.m. MST, and the moon will enter totality at 5:51 a.m. MST. Viewers in the Mountain time zone will also get the chance to see the middle of totality, when the moon is up to 100,000 times fainter than usual, at 6:29 a.m. The eclipse will end slightly before moonset, at 7:07 a.m. MST. Viewers in Alaska and Hawaii will get a full dose of totality, too, but they'll have to be very early birds or night owls. Totality begins at 3:51 a.m. AKST and ends at 5:05 a.m. AKST. Totality hits at 2:51 a.m. HST and will be over by 4:05 a.m. HST.
For viewers in the Central and Mountain time zones, the moon will set either during the total eclipse or while the satellite is exiting the Earth's shadow. The moon enters the dark umbra at about 5:48 a.m. CST and will hit totality slightly before moonset, at 6:51 a.m. CST. The umbra will appear at 4:48 a.m. MST, and the moon will enter totality at 5:51 a.m. MST. Viewers in the Mountain time zone will also get the chance to see the middle of totality, when the moon is up to 100,000 times fainter than usual, at 6:29 a.m. The eclipse will end slightly before moonset, at 7:07 a.m. MST. Viewers in Alaska and Hawaii will get a full dose of totality, too, but they'll have to be very early birds or night owls. Totality begins at 3:51 a.m. AKST and ends at 5:05 a.m. AKST. Totality hits at 2:51 a.m. HST and will be over by 4:05 a.m. HST.
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The summary is all about when, but what we desperately want to know is How? Do I use my eyes?
Now the ten Slashdot readers remaining get to wake up and find out they missed it.
1) Go outside
2) Look up
3) If you see the ceiling, you forgot to follow step #1
4) Look at moon
Remember, the solar eclipse was just a few months ago... so your eclipse glasses are still good, as long as they're not damaged.
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Super blue blood, that must mean it is part of the royal family.
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.... though we won't get the full effect.
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What's the deal with all the stories about the moon in recent months? Blue moons, super moons... a blue moon is a second full moon in a calendar month. Other than the arbitrary coincidence of the lunar cycle going from full moon to full moon within a named period of time, there's absolutely nothing interesting or unique about it.
The "super moon" is apparently a full moon near the moon's perigee appearing "up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than usual." I guess that could be interesting, maybe to photographers? I don't personally notice that much difference. Maybe if I could see the super moon and the regular moon side-by-side in the sky...
Last year there was a news story about the "strawberry moon" which is apparently a name for a full moon that happens in June. Since the lunar cycle is about 29.5 days, and June is 30 days long, there is necessarily a full moon in June every year.
I don't want to shit on "science" things that are fun and interesting, but I mean... does the appearance of the moon qualify? What is this about? I don't remember these articles always popping up when I was a kid.
Here is a nice time lapse video of the "super moon" eclipse of 2015 in case you are interested: https://youtu.be/2HHz7CVMPx4 . It was not a "blue moon" but that term does not refer to a physical difference, just that there are two full moons in the month.
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Total lunar eclipses during blue moons occurred over Australia on December 30, 1982 and December 30, 1963. But, thanks to time zone differences, these were not blue moons in North America. Both these eclipses would have been "super moons". Not a blue moon in NZ it will Feb1
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2018-january-31
You can enter your location on this webpage, lots of detailed information given.
Moon will go darker than normal, so no need to wear eclipse glasses unless you want to try out partial sight emulation.
Seriously? Not one mention of the rest of the world? This is not a local event, you know, it's a global space event. People in other countries just might be interested, too.
Yes, /. is an american site yada yada yada. I don't care that most of the political and tech topics are focussed on US politics and business - but for a clearly global event, editors could spend 30 seconds to look up the appropriate times at least for rough areas ("Europe", "Asia").
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Link, Link, be on your guard. Ganon's power grows... It rises to its peak under the hour of the Blood Moon. By its glow, the aimless spirits of monsters that were slain in the name of the light return to flesh. Link, please be careful.
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The above AC would have noticed what difference in Sun vs. Moon eclipse means, and would have told you that you actually can't go blind from a lunar eclipse,
but he cannot read anymore because hE WENT BLIND! by attempting to use eyes during the last solar eclipse.
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Kids!! Remember that ordinary sunglasses are NOT recommended for this eclipse.
I haven't seen any "end of the world" comments on the interwebs.
Like, this is a major cosmic coincidence - Blue moon, Blood moon, "Super" moon, AND total lunar eclipse, all at the same time. And not a peep from our doomsday end-of-the-world friends. (I miss them already).
What are they waiting for - super blue blood moon eclipse solar-nova day, or something?!
You havenâ(TM)t entirely misssed it, itâ(TM)s ongoing until moonset in Texas around 6:50.
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Isn't it a bit late to post that? I'm betting most of us are reading this on wednesday morning, after said lunar eclipse has happened.
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Yes, NASA TV is live streaming it from the telescopes at Griffith Observatory, which looks a lot better than anything I can see here with the naked eye.
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Just do the same thing I do. Look up at the sky and curse those damn clouds that are always there during every single astronomical event I want to watch.
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It was nice reading this at 9 AM today. Why wasn't this posted earlier yesterday?
1. Go outside
2. Look up
3. You will see the moon, unless it is very cloudy
You do know what "outside" is, right?
That is to say, I toyed with the notion of waking up in the middle of the night to go watch a SHADOW... but I decided the insides of my eyelids were FAR more interesting, and so I watched them instead. I can watch a shadow nearly any time I want... between all the crap going on in the world, and all the crap going on in the world besides the previously mentioned crap going on in the world, I have enough trouble sleeping as is, and I’m not, therefore, going to lose out on precious sleep to look at a stupid bloody shadow. I don’t care how bloody or how blue the moon is. The moon is not interesting to me that way. Visiting it, yes, that’d be awesome. Staring at it... no. Boring.
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From an astronomy point of view, it was the eclipse that was interesting.
The blue moon is nothing but a calendar thing, and has no scientific meaning.
The super moon is indeed larger, but not to the naked eye.
The blood moon is just an atmospheric phenomenon, and happens regularly.
It is the eclipse that was significant for an astronomy fan, rather than pop culture or astrology.
Anyways, if you were clouded out, or did not wake up early, here is where you can watch the eclipse as it was streamed.
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Having been in the path of totality for a total solar eclipse last year, lunar eclipses just don't stack up. Still neat to see, but probably not even worth getting up early for.
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