Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Blood moon tonight

USA Today:
The second — and final — total lunar eclipse of 2014 will occur early Wednesday morning, just before sunrise in the Eastern Time Zone and in the middle of the night on the West Coast.

The moon will appear a coppery red, so it's been called a "blood" moon. It'll look red because of all the sunsets and sunrises from the Earth that will reflect onto the lunar surface.

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"The eclipse will only be visible in its entirety from parts of eastern Australia, New Zealand, eastern Asia, most of Japan, the Hawaiian Islands and the western part of North America," according to Slooh.com.

Officially, the total eclipse will start at 6:25 a.m. ET (5:25 a.m. CT, 4:25 a.m. MT and 3:25 a.m. PT) and continue until 7:24 a.m. ET (4:24 a.m. PT).

If you're in the central or western parts of the USA, you'll see the total eclipse high in a dark sky well before sunrise, according to Sky and Telescope.

8 comments:

  1. It's nice , and I don't normally care about these type of things.

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  2. Getting a Moon Tan right now!

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  3. Had to come in…. to much astro radiation coming down, needed to get my tin hat on during the election period.

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  4. More WC edits for the KL CC. Well WC showing your true colors

    Watching your heavy edits are turning into a nonfree place

    Soon this blog will be as bad as MS NBC

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    1. Yup, my comment on how they make me puke was deleted. I guess this won't be here long either.

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  5. I made the moon disappear.

    Vote for Tony, and I'll put it back.

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  6. I watched the full lunar eclipse this time, too. Beautiful. Thanks, WC.

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  7. I wore sunglasses and couldn't see a damn thing.

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