Posted on 09/27/2015 12:06:10 PM PDT by Dave346
For the first time in more than 30 years, you can witness a supermoon in combination with a lunar eclipse. Late on Sept. 27, 2015, in the U.S. and much of the world, a total lunar eclipse will mask the moon’s larger-than-life face.
Watch NASA’s live stream from 8:00 p.m. until at least 11:30 p.m. EDT broadcast from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with a live feed from the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, Calif. Mitzi Adams, a NASA solar physicist at Marshall will discuss the eclipse and answer questions from Twitter. To ask a question, use #askNASA.
Throughout human history, lunar eclipses have been viewed with awe and sometimes fear. Today, we know that a total lunar eclipse happens when the full moon passes through the darkest part of Earth's shadow, the umbra.
Sunday’s supermoon eclipse will last 1 hour and 11 minutes, and will be visible to North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific. Weather permitting, you can see the supermoon after nightfall, and the eclipse will cast it into shadow beginning at 8:11 p.m. EDT. The total eclipse starts at 10:11 p.m. EDT, peaking at 10:47 p.m. EDT.
The moon does not make its own light; it reflects light it receives from the sun. During a lunar eclipse, the moon appears less and less bright as sunlight is blocked by the Earth’s shadow. As totality approaches, sunlight reaches the moon indirectly and is refracted around the “edges” of Earth, through Earth’s atmosphere. Because of this, almost all colors except red are “filtered” out, and the eclipsed moon appears reddish or dark brown. This filtering is caused by particulates in our atmosphere; when there have been a lot of fires and/or volcanic eruptions, lunar eclipses will appear darker and redder. This eerie -- but harmless -- effect has earned the phenomenon the nickname “blood moon.”
The live feed from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will offer views of the eclipse from not only the Griffith Observatory, but the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Fernbank Observatory in Atlanta and other locations across the United States. The live feed is an alternative for those experiencing less-than-optimal weather or light-polluted night skies.
Learn more about eclipses and how NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will wait as Earth blots out the sun and the moon goes dark. LRO scientists embrace new possibilities, extending their scientific exploration to include eclipses and other events that can reveal more of the moon’s secrets.
If you miss this event, you’ll have to wait a while -- the next supermoon eclipse won’t occur until 2033.
Clouds tend to break at night.
:)
No time to look to the skys lately but I have still seen several shooting stars
Venus over the crescent moon in recent weeks
I adore Autumn
Im like 16 down the alley to the woods with a Gal on a December night and have my first REAL kiss under a Full moon with a Halo around it
Surely This must be a sign..
Noop it was just Ice Crystals ☺
Thanks!
Fecking raining, heavy, low clouds.
Didn’t see a damn thing and NONE of the “live eclipse” feeds worked.
So bummed.
:(
It’s in all its glory now but its tiny and dark
Stay amazed my dear
Stay amazed
It has been clear as a bell here for weeks. If I had wanted to read a book by moonlight this week...I could have.
Tonight...I can’t even see the moon. That’s just wrong!!!
I wonder how this would look from the lunar surface. It would be nice to have a series of really good still and tv cameras up there for just such an event. Also, how would it look from lunar orbit. Hope they’re getting some snaps from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Might be kinda interesting.
I got to see some of it.
Now my neck hurts.
LOL
Let me fluff yer pillow
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