The night sky had a display in store on Wednesday 31 January, with a lunar event being called the “Super blue blood moon”. For Australia, Asia and some parts of the US and Eastern Europe, there was a lunar eclipse, as the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon. On the very same night, our only natural satellite entered the closest point to us in its elliptical orbit. It is also the second full Moon of the month, commonly called a blue moon. The eclipse began at 10:51 GMT and ended at 16:08 GMT. The word “blood” has been used to describe the deep red colour of the sunlight that passes through Earth’s atmosphere to illuminate our celestial neighbour. Supermoon watching This red glow was produced by the same effect that gave us blue skies and red sunsets, Dr Shannon Schmoll, director of Abrams Planetarium in Michigan, said. “Some sunlight is skimming through the Earth’s atmosphere on its way to the Moon, and it also gets refracted or bent towards the Moon a little bit,” she said. “So, we have this process of filtering out the blue light and leaving the red light to see. “And then having that light bent a little bit toward the Moon.” Dr Schmoll said the coincidence of these three lunar events was a “good excuse to go out and look at the night sky”. “I know some people did not like the term supermoon, since it’s not always obvious how much bigger it… [Read full story]
File photo of the moon being seen in the time around a total lunar eclipse on Apr 15, 2014 in Montevideo, Uruguay. WASHINGTON: Stargazers in the Americas and Asia will be treated to a lunar eclipse on Wednesday, a celestial show that will bathe the moon in red to create a "blood moon."During the total lunar eclipse, which will last several hours, the Earth will pass between the sun and the moon. As it happens, the moon will reflect sunlight scattered in the Earth's atmosphere, taking on a red hue.The eclipse will start at 4am (4pm Singapore time) on the…... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of young people on the evening of April 4 carried telescopes to gather in front of the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi to watch the full lunar eclipse. In the central city of Da Nang, young people gathered at the East Sea Park but they could not observe the phenomenon because of cloud cover. From 5pm, many young people were present in front of My Dinh Stadium to await the full lunar eclipse. Most of them are members of the Hanoi Amateur Astronomical Society. They brought many telescopes, mostly homemade, to the site. Some professional…... [read more]
Stargazers in the Americas and Asia were treated to a lunar eclipse Wednesday, a celestial show that bathed the moon in a reddish tint to create a "blood moon". During the total lunar eclipse, light beams into Earth's shadow, filling it with a coppery glow that gives it a red hue. The early phase of the eclipse began at 0800 GMT, or 4:00 am, on the east coast of the United States. NASA provided live footage via telescope of the eclipse, showing a black shadow creeping across the moon in a crawl that took about an hour. Only when the…... [read more]
CAPE CANAVERAL - Parts of the world saw a rare celestial event on Tuesday when the Earth's shadow fell across the moon, turning it orange. The lunar eclipse unfolded over three hours beginning at about 2 a.m. EDT, when the moon began moving into Earth's shadow. A little more than an hour later, the moon could be seen eclipsed and bathed in an orange, red or brown glow. Depending on local weather conditions, the eclipse was visible across a swath of the United States. Viewers from Florida to California and beyond went to viewing parties and social media and other…... [read more]
Southern California, April 15, 2014. This blood moon is the first of four lunar eclipses in 2014 and 2015. Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty If you're in Vietnam, pick a clear site and get your binoculars ready for Wednesday's total lunar eclipse. Dang Vu Tuan Son, chairman of Vietnam's amateur astronomy club, told Vietnam News Agency that the eclipse will start at 3:15pm Hanoi time, peak at 5:54pm and become a partial eclipse and end at 8:34pm. People on Vietnam can observe the eclipse starting at around 5:25pm, Son said. Total lunar eclipse, also known as Blood Moon due to its crimson…... [read more]
