Will you be viewing the eclipse?

RadishRose

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Super Blood Moon eclipse on night of September 27-28


There is a total eclipse of the moon on the night of September 27-28, 2015. It happens to be the closest supermoon of 2015. It’s the Northern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon, or full moon nearest the September equinox. It’s the Southern Hemisphere’s first full moon of spring. This September full moon is also called a Blood Moon, because it presents the fourth and final eclipse of a lunar tetrad: four straight total eclipses of the moon, spaced at six lunar months (full moons) apart. Phew!
The total lunar eclipse is visible from the most of North America and all of South Americaafter sunset September 27. From eastern South America and Greenland, the greatest eclipse happens around midnight September 27-28. In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the total eclipse takes place in the wee hours of the morning, after midnight and before sunriseSeptember 28. A partial lunar eclipse can be seen after sunset September 27 from western Alaska, or before sunrise September 28 in far-western Asia. Photo top of post shows a partial phase of the April 14-15, 2014 total lunar eclipse by Fred Espenak. Follow the links below to learn more about the 2015 Harvest Moon and the September 27-28 total lunar eclipse.

http://earthsky.org/?p=51212

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If any of you take photos, please post them?

 

We're supposed to have a fairly clear night tomorrow, so hopefully we will be able to watch this event. I think the next one is about 30 years away, so this may be almost the last chance to view this.
 
I would LOVE to see the eclipse but there is so, much fog here:( I suppose I could get lucky. I actually saw a star the other night, lol!
 
RadishRose said:
Phil, this video is certainly apropos but I noticed Stan sang "April" in the song instead of "February"; I wonder why?
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Good catch!

As far as I can find, there have been multiple versions of this song starting from 1908. Each seems to have slightly different time references -

"April, January, June or July" was found in the Ada Jones / Bill Murray version (Edison records, 1909)) while "January, February, June or July" was used by Mitch Miller (1958) and Leon Redbone (1976).
 
nwlady said:
I would LOVE to see the eclipse but there is so, much fog here:( I suppose I could get lucky. I actually saw a star the other night, lol!
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Denise, when we have rain there is a lot of dense fog here. Do you find that you like the fog as long as you don't have to go out driving in it? I do. :) Scared to death to drive or ride in a vehicle in it though. I love to sit in a chair out in the back field in dense fog. :)
 
Harvest Moon Eclipse Sunday night

A big full moon will rise in the east Sunday evening around 6:30 PM and begin to eclipse a little after 8 PM. The sky is expected to be clear and the air mild for the total eclipse with temperatures around 60, dropping into the upper 50s, and a southwesterly breeze around 10 mph. Sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere will result in reddish colors on the moon during the eclipse, just as it does in our sky during sunrise and sunset.
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The timing in the central States couldn't be better! 9 p.m. Now "all" I have to worry about are the clouds/fogs that roll in from the Gulf ... the weather people [ who believes them, anyway? ] "say" it will be clear. Hope so! I certainly won't be around for the next one ... or if I am, I'll be a candidate for the Guinness record book! :rolleyes:
 
We're expecting good conditions here in New England and I hope to get some good pictures. Have to find a place to get out with my tripod and camera.
 
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