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I cannot believe nobody made a post on this yet but here it goes.
In the US, Canada, and Central and South America, this rare Total Lunar Eclipse of a Supermoon will begin on the evening of September 27, 2015. In Europe, South/East Asia, Africa, the Arctic, and in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans it starts after midnight on September 28, 2015.
Also called a Blood Moon this eclipse will last for about 1 hour and 12 minutes.
I will be watching the total eclipse that should be 100% at 10:47 tonight EST its a clear night.
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Its a very close moon about 50,000 miles closer I think.
Will anyone be riding their brooms? Sally? Aussiebitch? Duchess? There are many more and you know who you are!
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User did make a post about this.
If you'd quit drinking the moonshine and pay attention, you may notice a thing or two.
Anyway, it's an hour earlier here, and I'll be watching. The moon is at perigee (13% larger than normal).
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User smooser, she's probably on a plane because she forgot her broom someplace, lord knows she doesn't know what its really for anyways.
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Does anybody know what this blood moon business is all about?
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It is a sacred night to pro create.
But do not believe anything I say!
But really perhaps it is so named because the moon appears to be the color red.
Or from some random article off the internet: Allow me to shamelessly copy and paste.
A blood moon occurs when there’s a full moon in close proximity to the Earth — a so-called super moon — in combination with an eclipse of the moon, which happens when the Earth passes between the sun and moon.
The two events will produce a reddish glow around the somewhat darkened moon for about an hour Sunday night. The last blood moon occurred in 1982 and the next one won’t occur until 2033.
Earth's shadow is red at the edges for the same reason a sunset is red: When sunlight is scattered by passing through Earth's atmosphere, the other colors of the spectrum are removed.
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(09-27-2015, 09:01 PM)Maggot Wrote: User smooser, she's probably on a plane because she forgot her broom someplace, lord knows she doesn't know what its really for anyways.
It was cool but it was further away than I anticipated. Apparently it was all things moon: harvest moon, super moon and blood moon (I just read up on the definitions of each). A super moon falls within some specified distance and apparently we've had 5 already this year. This moon may have fit the definition of a super moon but it was seemingly way the fuck further away than some of the full moons we had earlier this year. The moon looked HUGE on those occasions while I had to get binoculars out to appreciate the eclipse tonight.
Still a sight to see and so far it doesn't seem like it foretold the end of the world so it's all good.
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(09-27-2015, 07:38 PM)Maggot Wrote: Will anyone be riding their brooms? Sally? Aussiebitch? Duchess?
I was in bed at 7:30 and I wasn't riding a broom.
It wasn't that long ago that I was seen with a broom and asked "going somewhere"?
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Clouds broke just in time so I could see it. Always enjoy seeing stuff like that...
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I missed it because all I wanted to do was sleep.
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They call it a blue moon here because of the infrequency of the occurrence.
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(09-28-2015, 06:19 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: They call it a blue moon here because of the infrequency of the occurrence.
Are you just trolling or are you making a bid to become 'Ramsey III'?
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Me and my daughter watched the devil moon, my wife refused to look at it, something about being turned into a pillar of salt or something...
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(09-28-2015, 06:59 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: (09-28-2015, 06:19 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: They call it a blue moon here because of the infrequency of the occurrence.
Are you just trolling or are you making a bid to become 'Ramsey III'? I'm 100% serious. Tucson and surrounding areas have numerous observatories and the astronomers here were calling it a blue moon eclipse.
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A blue moon is 2 full moons in the same month. They could be right but I'm not sure if we've had 2 full moons this month. My calendar is heavenly body challenged.
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(09-29-2015, 11:37 AM)Maggot Wrote: A blue moon is 2 full moons in the same month. They could be right but I'm not sure if we've had 2 full moons this month. My calendar is heavenly body challenged. Our last blue moon was in July. I'm not trying to make sense of it, just saying that's how it was reported here on the news and how the astronomers explained why they don't refer to it as a blood moon, but a blue moon eclipse. The same guys were on the news this morning talking about the water they found on Mars. One of them (McEwean) is a principal investigator for NASA.
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