When to see the supermoon and total lunar eclipse in September 2015

The Supermoon, also known as the Bloodmoon, will occur on September 27 or 28, depending on the country. As always, NASA will be watching the event and will do everything it can to make sure you can see it, too, if doing so in person isn’t possible. The lunar eclipse begins in Israel around 3:12 a.m.

On September 27, people across the Hudson Valley can see something that hasn’t happened in more than 30 years: a supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse. As a result, the moon appears abnormally large and bright as a result.

Indeed, we haven’t seen one since the early 1980s, so people are understandably getting excited – the next occurance will be in 2033, for example. He said studying the surface of the moon is a natural laboratory for investigation to see what was happening just after the planets formed.

Astronomers recommend star gazers to get their cameras ready for action as the phenomenon would not happen again until 2033. As you may have learned, the moon has no light of its own. That’s the moon at “perigee” – PAIR-uh-jee – if you want to impress your friends.

The final Blood Moon full lunar eclipse of 2015, which will take place on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on Monday, has sparked doomsday fears of catastrophes among some religious observers.

“When we look at the moon, we are really looking into the deep history of the Earth as well”, he said.

The moon is expected to start to eclipse around 9 p.m., with totality beginning at 10:11 p.m. and lasting until 11:23 p.m.

A full lunar eclipse is when the earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, cutting off the moon’s light source. A solar eclipse is similar except in that case it is the moon passing between the sun and earth. Typically, total lunar eclipses can be seen from any given location about once every three years on average, so, four eclipses in two years is quite phenomenal. The harvest moon looks especially big (an optical trick called “the moon illusion”) and yellow (since it is dimmed by atmospheric refraction) because it is so low on the skyline.

As with most of these skywatching events, seeing them with your own eyes, from your backyard or a nearby Dark Sky Preserve, is certainly the preferred way.