Posted on 12/27/2018 8:52:56 PM PST by Eddie01
Sky watchers will welcome the New Year with an exciting phenomenon: a rare Super Blood Wolf Moon that will coincide with a total lunar eclipse.
Another total lunar eclipse is happening almost a year after 2018 Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse, only that it will not be a "blue" one this time around.
The total lunar eclipse will be witnessed on the evening of Jan. 20 to 21 wherein the rare Super Blood Wolf Moon is going to pass through the northern half of Earth's shadow, according to meteorologist Scott Sutherland who revealed the news through The Weather Network.
The total lunar eclipse will be seen throughout the United States beginning Jan. 20. It will finish on Jan. 21 starting at 9:36 pm EST and end at 2:48 am EST. The Super Blood Wolf Moon will grace the night-side of Earth that includes South America, the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the Western Atlantic Ocean, and Extreme Western Europe.
Interestingly, the total lunar eclipse happening in winter 2019 will not be just like any other. What makes it so extraordinary is it will be a rare Super Blood Wolf Moon Total Lunar Eclipse. This is quite so as the total lunar eclipse takes place when the moon is near perigee, the point at which it is in closest distance to Earth than usual, making it appear larger. The moon becomes the Blood Moon as its color turns coppery red because of light refraction.
Why is it called the Super Blood Wolf Moon? In Native American times, hungry wolves would be seen near the towns and villages at a full moon. Also, the full moon is both a Supermoon and a Blood Moon, which obviously explains why it is named Super Blood Wolf Moon.
The Super Blood Wolf Moon Total Lunar Eclipse is also a rare one. It will as well be the first and last to occur across the winter skies of Northern America within the next three years. The same celestial event will again happen in May of 2022.
Double secret probation?
Sounds like the title of some Japanese anime.
Isn’t this, like, the twelfth rare blood moon in the last couple of years?
This should inspire the anti-Trump witches.
Who keeps coming up with these gory, morbid names for phases of the moon?
It sounds like a B Horror Flick or a stirred drink with lots of Grenadine.
“Ooohhh! That sounds VEDDY skeddy, keeds! Blood! Red!! WOLF-MOON!!! In 3-D! How do you like DAT?!? Aaah-wooooo!!!”
—Count Floyd
Yeah. But there won’t be any more due to climate change. /s
Thank goodness it isn’t a Super Blood Tiger Moon. Charlie Sheen might kill us all!
Good, because all these blood moons and astronomical events were all portents of end times, and we’ve had enough end times lately to last a lifetime. Who knew that climate calamity would save us?
Thanks for posting this, Eddie01!
PING to a couple of buddies!
“Hey wolf moon, Come cast your spell on me”
In before the “Catastrophism” ping.
LOL! I was just reading this thread. I have the night marked on my 2019 calendar already and will be super PO’d if we have cloudy skies. It happens to us far too often.
Earthquake moon
Remember when some folks feared that the “harmonic convergence” in 1987(?) was going to cause tsunami-like tides across the earth?
He’d spin the right platter for this...
There’s A Wolf Moon on the Rise - Creedence Wolfman Revival
Bite your tongue!
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