Reminder: Blood moon eclipse in 5.5 hours in Americas, Australia and Asia. Post your pics here.

For those interested this is a reminder to watch the sky in 5.5 hours to catch the eclipse of the moon.

If your skies are overcast, you can catch a webcast of it

here

Any pictures you take would be interesting to see and most welcome to post here.

a reply to: aboutface
Soo 2 est?
I got a long day of painful pt ahead of me and need my sleep but I may have to stay up if the skys are clear in Georgia , haha.

Thanks - is this the final blood moon in the tetrad?

ETA: looked it up, guess this is the 2nd of 4 - 2 more next year it appears

Was looking forward to this, but it reaches totality right as it's setting in the west for me where I'm at.

And the trees to the west will be in the way!

a reply to: eriktheawful

Now that's a bummer. I don't know if I'll be able to stay awake for it all, but I'll give it the old college try.

Oh wow forgot all about this time to go out and take a look. I know I don't have the best camera but I wonder if I can snap a shot.

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Looks like a normal full moon sadly. Perhaps I am too early?

a reply to: aboutface

Time frame is a bit off.

I recommend you start observations about 6:00 am EST. Should start seeing the eclipse around 6:20 and should last until about 7:25.

Enjoy!

originally posted by: AnonyMason
a reply to: aboutface

Time frame is a bit off.

I recommend you start observations about 6:00 am EST. Should start seeing the eclipse around 6:20 and should last until about 7:25.

Enjoy!

Ah thank you. I usually go to bed around 4 or 5 AM. I guess a bit later and I should be able to see it hopefully, well time to get some reading and gaming accomplished while I wait. Thanks again!

a reply to: AnonyMason

Oh my, I completely forgot to adjust the Pacific time to eastern. Thanks for the correction. Much appreciated.

a reply to: aboutface

No worries! Space.com time frames according to NASA

ED

Stage 1 @ 1:15 a.m. PDT: Moon enters penumbra

you weren't that far off. Cheers

Looks like 4:20 am Colorado! I caught the first on this last spring (about 2am). Was a pretty awesome thing.

Four blood moons?!!!

Bible Prophecy?!!!!

ISIS, SYRIA,RUSSIA-UKRAINE, EBOLA?!!!

ERMAGHEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!

I'm looking at it now. All high and full, looking beautiful.

Wife got to see it just as it was rising, I told her I bet it was one of the four blood moons.

This confirms.

Strange, myself and others around me are coincidentally going through such emotional/spiritual turmoil.....

Pouring rain here. Guess I'll have to catch an internet view. The moon here has been so full and large this week you can read a book out there.

If I had a view I'd definitely take a photograph, even if the iPhone would completely distort it. Blood moons, prophecies. As one poster humorously pointed out, Ebola, ISIS, blood moons. Yup, gets my prophetic conspiratorial grey matter up to speed. S + F thanks for reminding me I didn't know it was today.

a reply to: Yeahkeepwatchingme

Catch it on the space.com live feed, dude!

Uranaus will be visable during the full moon eclipse.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA... cheap joke.

Really, though, the planet should be visable to the naked eye. Very cool.

Why is tonight’s event rare?

Tonight’s event is the second of a rare set of four lunar eclipses that will happen over two years; the set of four eclipses is so rare, it’s given a special name: a tetrad.
For 300 years, between 1600 and 1900, there were no tetrads. In more recent history tetrads have occurred a handful of times, and lucky for us another is set to happen in 20 years.
Where will the eclipse be visible from?
Where will the eclipse be visible from?
NASA / Via eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov
In North America, people on the West Coast, especially the Northern-half, are expected to have great views, while those in the East Coast should be able to see the first half of the eclipse in the early morning hours.
Viewers in South America will also experience the early stages of the eclipse. Those in the Pacific Ocean region, like New Zealand and Hawaii, will have the best views.
The eastern coast of Australia will also be able to see the entire eclipse, while Australia’s west coast will see the moon rise during the early partial phases. Most of Japan and the easternmost part of Asia will see the entire eclipse.
Unfortunately, none of the eclipse will be visible from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, because the moon will be on the opposite side of earth.

Moon Info

Just thought it was interesting information to add to your moon thread….

A little slice of doom for you moon watchers...

‏75:7 فاذا برق البصر
‏75:8 وخسف القمر
‏75:9 وجمع الشمس والقمر
‏75:10 يقول الانسان يومئذ اين المفر

[075:007] At length, when the sight is dazed,
[075:008] And the moon is buried in darkness.
[075:009] And the sun and moon are joined together,-
[075:010] That Day will Man say: "Where is the refuge?"

I found this tied to a search on red moon in quran...
Let's interpret huh?

1. Sight is dazed? This could refer to enviromental problems but I think sight is meant in the spiritual sense or when religion becomes diluted.
2. A moon buried in darkness, the flag of isis.
3. Tonight.
4. Ebola? Nah, not with four new chem weapons.facilities in syria we knew nothing about. There will be no refuge from what isis unleashes.

Have fun.

a reply to: Thorneblood

100% cloud cover in SE Queensland, Australia.
But prophecy is BS along with the texts you draw from.

a reply to: AnonyMason

Really, though, the planet should be visable to the naked eye.

No. Not really.

Your source:

Uranus is just around the limit of naked-eye visibility at magnitude 5.7, so interested observers will need binoculars to spot it. Even in the most powerful telescopes, Uranus is so far away that it will be only a tiny, featureless, blue-green disk.

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