Blue Moon, Blood Moon, Super Moon and Lunar Eclipse
Discussion
Today we have a rare combination of lunar events all happening at more or less the same time -
Blue Moon - two full moons in one calendar month
Blood Moon/Eclipse - lunar eclipse which should look red (unfortunately, the eclipse is not visible in the UK or Europe)
Super Moon - the full moon coincides with the moon's closes approach to earth
Blue Moon - two full moons in one calendar month
Blood Moon/Eclipse - lunar eclipse which should look red (unfortunately, the eclipse is not visible in the UK or Europe)
Super Moon - the full moon coincides with the moon's closes approach to earth
Simpo Two said:
I don't get all the excitement. The moon has been doing exactly the same thing for millions of years. It orbits the Earth. It looks a bit bigger when it's nearer, and a bit red when there's dust in the atmosphere. Why suddenly all this hype? It's just the f
king moon!
Hard to tell the difference in size once it is up but I saw a few local to me popping out the back door to go "oooooh" . If it peaks their interest crack on, though winter watch did say it looked bigger.......![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
Simpo Two said:
I don't get all the excitement. The moon has been doing exactly the same thing for millions of years. It orbits the Earth. It looks a bit bigger when it's nearer, and a bit red when there's dust in the atmosphere. Why suddenly all this hype? It's just the f
king moon!
It wasn't that big a deal really, but the astronomical community likes to encourage the average citizen to "look up" and therefore make the most of relatively rare phenomenon.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
As explained in my opening post, having three lunar phenomenon all happening in a 24 hour period is fairly rare.
The increase in size of the moon when it is at perigee is not really that obvious (it's about 10% bigger in realty) but the APPARENT increase when it is low in the sky is a well known phenomenon and is usually referred to as "The Moon Illusion". It was the subject of a very interesting "Sky at Night" episode back in the 1970s.
Eric Mc said:
Simpo Two said:
I don't get all the excitement. The moon has been doing exactly the same thing for millions of years. It orbits the Earth. It looks a bit bigger when it's nearer, and a bit red when there's dust in the atmosphere. Why suddenly all this hype? It's just the f
king moon!
It wasn't that big a deal really, but the astronomical community likes to encourage the average citizen to "look up" and therefore make the most of relatively rare phenomenon.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
As explained in my opening post, having three lunar phenomenon all happening in a 24 hour period is fairly rare.
The increase in size of the moon when it is at perigee is not really that obvious (it's about 10% bigger in realty) but the APPARENT increase when it is low in the sky is a well known phenomenon and is usually referred to as "The Moon Illusion". It was the subject of a very interesting "Sky at Night" episode back in the 1970s.
We won't have solar eclipses like we do now forever.
funkyrobot said:
Eric Mc said:
Simpo Two said:
I don't get all the excitement. The moon has been doing exactly the same thing for millions of years. It orbits the Earth. It looks a bit bigger when it's nearer, and a bit red when there's dust in the atmosphere. Why suddenly all this hype? It's just the f
king moon!
It wasn't that big a deal really, but the astronomical community likes to encourage the average citizen to "look up" and therefore make the most of relatively rare phenomenon.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
As explained in my opening post, having three lunar phenomenon all happening in a 24 hour period is fairly rare.
The increase in size of the moon when it is at perigee is not really that obvious (it's about 10% bigger in realty) but the APPARENT increase when it is low in the sky is a well known phenomenon and is usually referred to as "The Moon Illusion". It was the subject of a very interesting "Sky at Night" episode back in the 1970s.
We won't have solar eclipses like we do now forever.
https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/4Page28.pdf
jmorgan said:
funkyrobot said:
Eric Mc said:
Simpo Two said:
I don't get all the excitement. The moon has been doing exactly the same thing for millions of years. It orbits the Earth. It looks a bit bigger when it's nearer, and a bit red when there's dust in the atmosphere. Why suddenly all this hype? It's just the f
king moon!
It wasn't that big a deal really, but the astronomical community likes to encourage the average citizen to "look up" and therefore make the most of relatively rare phenomenon.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
As explained in my opening post, having three lunar phenomenon all happening in a 24 hour period is fairly rare.
The increase in size of the moon when it is at perigee is not really that obvious (it's about 10% bigger in realty) but the APPARENT increase when it is low in the sky is a well known phenomenon and is usually referred to as "The Moon Illusion". It was the subject of a very interesting "Sky at Night" episode back in the 1970s.
We won't have solar eclipses like we do now forever.
https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/4Page28.pdf
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