Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Will Have Stargazers Seeing Red

“Though SDO sees dozens of Earth eclipses and several lunar transits each year, this is the first time ever that the two have coincided”, NASA stated in a press release of the event. Petro works at the NASA-funded space flight center which is at Greenbelt, Maryland. Thereby, when it is the farthest from the Earth it is called an apogee and the closest it gets to the Earth is called a perigee.

A bright full moon will gradually turn into a dark reddish or coppery-colored moon September 27 during a total lunar eclipse. This phenomenon will produce a rare “Super Moon” eclipse, which last occurred in 1982 and will not occur again until 2033.

As per experts, one might get three to four eclipses in a row or a supermoon, when the rhythms line up.

But there is one important difference for Lunarians: As long as you’re on the Earth-facing side of the moon, you will see the total solar eclipse no matter where you’re standing.

During the past six years, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter along with its suite of highly advanced cameras have taken images of the lunar surface at high resolution quality. Christian pastors Mark Blitz and John Hagee claim that the eclipses of the 2014-2015 lunar tetrad fulfill a Biblical prophecy of forthcoming hard and trying times.

Though no human in space caught this last eclipse, astronauts have briefly witnessed eclipses before during the Gemini XII and Apollo 12 missions.

While we may need to wait two weeks to feast on the next full moon, tonight is a great night to see stars. As our planet passes the sun, the moon is sent into the shadows while the sun’s light hits the Earth’s atmosphere, forming a red ring around it, Huffington Post reports.

The gravitational forces the Moon and Sun exert are responsible for Earth’s rising and falling tides. Scientifically it’s a pretty vague term with lots of latitude and means that the moon is close (relatively speaking) to earth and will look big.

A huge red moon may have been frightening to ancient peoples such as the Incans and Mesopotamians, but there’s no cause for alarm, said Petro. This new LRO data set unravels the important processes yet invisible ones occuring on the moon right now.