blood moon photo by Doug Murray
APnews has the thumbnail report on this evening’s lunar
eclipse:
The celestial curtain will be
rising soon on a lunar extravaganza.
Sunday night, the Earth will slide
directly between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse. There
won’t be another until 2021.
It will also be the year’s first
supermoon, when a full moon appears a little bigger and brighter thanks to its
slightly closer position.
The entire eclipse will exceed
three hours. Totality — when the moon’s completely bathed in Earth’s shadow —
will last an hour. Expect the eclipsed, or blood moon, to turn red from
sunlight scattering off Earth’s atmosphere.
Everyone everywhere can catch the
supermoon, weather permitting. But the entire eclipse will be visible only in
North and South America, and across the Atlantic to western and northern
Europe.
Another report from ALNews [Alabama News] is here, and it
shows the cloud cover map. Cleveland is in the middle of a winter storm with total cloud cover. So if you want to watch the supermoon and the eclipse, here’s
the link to the eclipse livestream on YouTube (start checking the link around 10:30pm).
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