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A dramatic total lunar eclipse is coming. You don't want to miss it.
mashable ^ | February 15, 2025 | Mark Kaufman on

Posted on 02/16/2025 11:16:09 AM PST by BenLurkin

The entirety of the lower 48 states, the greater Americas, and some regions beyond will witness — weather permitting — a total lunar eclipse the night of March 13 and into the early morning of March 14. This special cosmic event occurs when the moon, Earth, and sun are aligned. Long, red wavelengths of light pass through Earth's atmosphere and are projected onto the moon in majestic rusty or crimson colors.

The coming total lunar eclipse, now less than a month away, is the first to grace Earth since 2022.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 2025; astronomy; bloodmoon; eclipse; lunar; lunareclipse; moon; themoon
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1 posted on 02/16/2025 11:16:09 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Got it marked on my calendar now. Thanks for the heads up.


2 posted on 02/16/2025 11:18:55 AM PST by myprecious
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Blood moon

Not to be confused with Moon Bloodgood


3 posted on 02/16/2025 11:19:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I had really hoped the silly term "blood moon" had been eliminated. Nope, it was right in the first sentence of the article at the site.

Now I just have to convince people they need to use welding goggles or their leftover solar eclipse glasses to watch it.

4 posted on 02/16/2025 11:21:59 AM PST by KarlInOhio (“Forget it, Jake. It's California.”)
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Remember a few years ago when we had a series of blood moons or something like that? People were writing books about how that presaged all kinds of things that never happened, of course.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 11:24:53 AM PST by odawg
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To: BenLurkin

Dramatic

Been there done it.

Like watching paint dry.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 11:28:03 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: BenLurkin

Dramatic

Been there done it.

Like watching paint dry.


7 posted on 02/16/2025 11:31:16 AM PST by Chickensoup
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Yes well, people don’t do the human sacrifice at midnight anymore. That’s always livened things up.

Now they’re just on their phones playing candy crush.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 11:31:41 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Chickensoup

My then 14 year old grandson found the January 2019 eclipse exciting.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 11:33:42 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: BenLurkin

Human sacrifice at the lunar eclipse..

Hmmmm.

I can understand the need for entertainment. However dancing 💃 girls or torch singers would work as well!


10 posted on 02/16/2025 11:34:44 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: odawg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_moon_prophecy
11 posted on 02/16/2025 11:35:33 AM PST by KarlInOhio (“Forget it, Jake. It's California.”)
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To: BenLurkin
Blood moon
Not to be confused with Moon Bloodgood

...or baloon mood...

;^)

12 posted on 02/16/2025 11:37:09 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: BenLurkin

IIRC-—THE CURRENT CR expires on 3-14.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 11:45:40 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Ping


14 posted on 02/16/2025 11:54:49 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t that caused by the sun coming between the earth and the moon? ;-D


15 posted on 02/16/2025 11:57:05 AM PST by GingisK
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To: odawg
No, no blood moon on October 7, 2023. Waning crescent. Bad things happened that day to Isreal.

https://www.moongiant.com/images/today_phase/moon_day_WanC_35.jpg

Picture of the Bad stuff that happened to Gaza. Not the fault of the moon, its because Hamas is a criminal organization that likes to kill and rape. (What real religion tell its votaries that its OK to kill and rape? None.)


16 posted on 02/16/2025 11:57:22 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: odawg

Like John Hagee in 2015.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 11:58:23 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: myprecious

It’ll be going on mine as well.


18 posted on 02/16/2025 11:59:17 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Chickensoup

Yeah the moon turns a bit copper coloured and that is about it. Now a total solar eclipse on the other hand is dramatic. The difference is like night and day.


19 posted on 02/16/2025 11:59:27 AM PST by xp38
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To: GingisK

Should that ever occur we’d have some real ultra serious global warming to speak of. :)


20 posted on 02/16/2025 12:01:47 PM PST by xp38
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