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How to See the 'Super Flower Blood Moon,' 1st Lunar Eclipse of This Decade

posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 25 2021, @04:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the pictures,-or-it-never-happened! dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RunawayXXXX:

How to see the 'Super Flower Blood Moon,' 1st lunar eclipse of this decade:

This week's full moon will be the second supermoon of the season, appearing brighter and larger than usual. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the "Flower Blood Moon" will be roughly 222,000 miles away from the Earth early Wednesday morning.

May's full moon is known as the "Flower Moon," and because a total lunar eclipse -- also known as a "blood moon" as it gives the moon a reddish hue -- is also set to happen at the same time, it's being called the "Super Flower Blood Moon."

The moon will be at its brightest and largest at 4:14 a.m. PT (11:14 UTC), according to astronomers.

People who live in western North America, western South America, eastern Asia, and Oceania, will have the best view of the "Flower Blood Moon," according to astronomers.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Maddog on Tuesday May 25 2021, @05:50PM (4 children)

    by Maddog (690) on Tuesday May 25 2021, @05:50PM (#1138660)

    The difference in size between a super Moon, a full Moon, and a micro Moon is very small. A super Moon is only 6.9% bigger than a normal full Moon.
    - Adler Planetarium

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @06:18PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @06:18PM (#1138664)

    Who's the idiot naming these things? How the hell do you have a "super" moon like every other month or so?

    Ah, I see now, [earthsky.org] an effin astrologer defined it! That's why something that shold happen every 15 months or so is defined to occur about four times a year!

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @07:26PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @07:26PM (#1138678)

      Referring to these moons as "super moons" is about as inane as referring to football players as super men, and they are typically more than 7% larger than normal people, but few people would term them supermen. I'm not surprised that it was an astrologer that started this BS, they need something to convince the rubes out there that they need astrological services.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @03:53AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @03:53AM (#1138831)

        Ah, you must be a Scorpio. Scorpios are always sceptical.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday May 26 2021, @04:36PM

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday May 26 2021, @04:36PM (#1138990) Journal

        I felt like Godwin'ing this, but then I decided not to. Though, I guess I just did. So, here goes! Hitler would have . . .

        --
        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"