Sunday Night Total Lunar Eclipse
By MARCIA DUNN
FILE – This Friday, July 27, 2018 file photo shows a blood moon lunar eclipse from the Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Starting Sunday evening, Jan. 20, 2019, all of North and South America will be able to see the only total lunar eclipse of 2019 from start to finish this weekend. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza.
Sunday night, the Earth will slide directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There won’t be another until 2021.
It will also be the year’s first supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its slightly closer position.
The entire eclipse will exceed three hours. Totality — when the moon’s completely bathed in Earth’s shadow — will last an hour. Expect the eclipsed, or blood moon, to turn red from sunlight scattering off Earth’s atmosphere.
Everyone everywhere can catch the supermoon, weather permitting. But the entire eclipse will be visible only in North and South America, and across the Atlantic to western and northern Europe.
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Thanks, Ex, for the head’s up.
Category: Blue Skies, It's science!
Dang it Ed, don’t Moon us!
Heh. Should have seen that coming.
*grin*
Been looking forward to this one, missed the showing back in July, heavy cloud cover over firebase 5/17 Magnolia. Clear and cold, but got a nice brush & log fire laid out in the pit, just got to light it up.
Gonna catch a nap and a little canoodling here shortly so I can stay up later for the whole show. Got some more of the vegetable AND beef soup, sliders made from the orasted beast and some grilled smoked sausage dogs. Good times!
Marcia Marcia Marcia
Won’t be abida see it due to the storm.
Can’t see my truck in the driveway as it is.
The Moon was quite bright this morning at 5AM before setting. I thought the people on the street behind mine had left their yard light turned on, but it was the Moon.
If you miss the Eclipse and get up before sunrise, you may see Venus and Jupiter (below) just east of Scorpio. You may even see Antares if there is low light pollution where you are.
Here’s a link to that:
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-january-18-26/
Well, maybe. Depends upon how cold it is and if there is cloud cover. If all we get to see here is a cloudy sky, can do that now and go to bed at the normal hour.
I recall looking up into the sky during my NC childhood, and wondering what was out there and where and how did it end. I’m still wondering. I’ve said before the absolute best ‘job’ I could have would be doing anything on a spacecraft that left earth with no plans of returning. I can imagine the day when thousands of craft leave Earth over a period of time and reunite in space with no intention of returning. I would take any job. Can you imagine this scenario?
Im wid ya. Let’s go Chief. Maybe we can be FIRST!
Hate to break it to y’all, but…
It’s already taken.
Just had to go borrow Hondo’s fun blanket didn’t ya?
If the Martian didn’t holler/post FIRST, then he don’t count.
The Chief & I will wait for an official ruling from Claw.
Marvin disagrees.
We’re taking Bugs. The Bunny be with us.
Well damn. Been ‘Trumped’ by a wabbit.
I’m good with that.
To show there’s no hard feelings..
Rhetorically, of course.
I’ll stay right here on planet Earth, with occasional excursions into the stratosphere- any higher gets stupid expensive.
We’ll send you a post card from Venus. It’s just down the line. Heard there’s a lot of nice girls there.
Japan conquered the Moon?
I doubt if I’ll be able to see this celestial event tonight. Cold and cloudy, threats of precipitation.
This kind of stuff is cool as hell. Just came in from a look with the wife. Once it’s fully eclipsed I’m gonna wake the kids and let them look see too
Too freeeekin’ cold last night. Even the cats wouldn’t go to the open door. They were buried under their blankkies and would have none of it.
It was a wee bit chilly out, but the clouds parted enough to see the eclipse. Only saw a little of it due to the chill, so all I can attest to is that it happened. How long t took, I dunno. There wasn’t any red to it, though, at least not while I was watching.
“…it was a wee bit chilly out,…” I be damn. It was colder than my final ex wife’s heart. And I’m in Central GA. Wind was a whipping pretty good still, so I didn’t light the fire in the pit. I did bundle up with the long handles and insulated coveralls, boots, and gloves. Also had some internal anti freeze working.
That old bad moon was a hanging right over the Magnolia Tree, a truly dark red ball that appeared as if I could just reach up and grab a hold to it. Not having the fire made it colder, but my night vision wasn’t affected and the lack of light pollution made for a very nice viewing.
Didn’t want to miss it, may not be around for the next one. Just before and after the blooding the light was almost literally bright enough to read by.
We had sporadic cloud cover in my area, we couldn’t see it from out location but the folks over the mountain could.