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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   
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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• Poor Runaway!Poor Runaway! (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @10:33PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @10:33PM (#1138735)

  Never would have pegged Runaway as being interested in Astronomy!

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• Re:Poor Runaway!Re:Poor Runaway! (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday May 26 2021, @06:13AM (1 child)

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday May 26 2021, @06:13AM (#1138852) Journal

  If you want to run away really far, you have to aim at the stars.

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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  • Re:Poor Runaway!(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 27 2021, @12:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 27 2021, @12:17AM (#1139130)

    Ad astra, per Arkansas, I always say!

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