Supermoon lunar eclipse combo dazzles world

Sunday’s Blood Moon was the fifth of six supermoons this year alone.

Astronomer Dr. Sharaf Bin Rafood Al-Safiani, who is the member of Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Scienc (AUASS), said the lunar eclipse will be the last this year.

That will coincide with a full lunar eclipse where the moon, Earth and sun will be lined up, with Earth’s shadow totally obscuring the moon.

Because sunlight is scattered around the Earth’s atmosphere, a reddish silhouette glows around the dark eclipse.

Also shown below is his structuring of the Blood Moon by collating the live photos taken during the entire event as it unfolded.

A supermoon appears 14% larger and 30% brighter than the moon at its furthermost point from the Earth.

It was most visible in South America, western Europe, western Africa and the Middle East, while people in many other parts of the world could only see a partial eclipse, reports say. But refraction (not Rayleigh scattering) is the reason that any light reaches the Moon during totality.

So, we had a massive red moon in the sky for a short amount of time, which must have confused werewolves no end. The moon was fully immersed in Earth’s umbral shadow at 3:11 am, yes a super slow event but worth watching. Adding fuel to the theories is the fact the dramatic blood moon is part of a pattern of four lunar eclipses – known as the lunar tetrad.

Did you hear about the time a lunar eclipse saved Christopher Columbus’s life? The total eclipse starts two hours later and lasts for one hour and 12 minutes.

As for Sunday night’s Supermoon, you can see our pictures with this post.