Posted on 01/23/2018 4:53:28 PM PST by Elderberry
On Wednesday, Jan. 31st, there's going to be a "Blue Moon"–the second full Moon in a calendar month. People who go outside to look may see a different hue: bright orange. This Blue Moon is going to be eclipsed, swallowed by copper-colored shadow of Earth for more than an hour. The eclipse will be visible from Asia, Australia, and most of North America.
The bright orange color of the eclipse may be chalked up to volcanic activity–or rather, lack thereof. Atmospheric scientist Richard Keen from the University of Colorado explains:
"During a lunar eclipse, most of the light illuminating the Moon passes through Earth's stratosphere where it is reddened by scattering," he says. "If the stratosphere is loaded with dust from volcanic eruptions, the eclipse will be dark. The cataclysmic explosion of Tambora in 1815, for instance, turned the Moon into a dark, starless hole in sky during two subsequent eclipses."
But Earth is experiencing a bit of a volcanic lull. We haven't had a major volcanic blast since 1991 when Mt Pinatubo awoke from a 500 year slumber and sprayed ten billion cubic meters of ash, rock and debris into Earth's atmosphere. Recent eruptions have been puny by comparison and have failed to make a dent on the stratosphere. To Keen, the interregnum means one thing: "This eclipse is going to be bright and beautiful."
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I’ll wait for John Hagee to tell us what this *really* means.
:^)
Ah...a blood red blue moon.
Cool! I will look for it!
So it'll look what color? Burple?
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. (Actually I already heard about this somewhere) but it’s the first time on FR.
It’s not as bad as a red moon but a bit worse than a blue moon.
I’ll try to remember and roll out the telescope.
Now, will this event make global warming hotter or cooler?
But will it be a Super Moon? If not, f this crap....call me spoiled but I’m a Super Moon guy or I’m not going out in my pajamas in the middle of the night to stare at the moon.
ugh...it’s going to CHANGE the earth climate silly. Cooling is so 70’s, warming is 90s talks. Get with the new Doomillenium.
Thanks Elderberry!
PING to a few friends!
Your screen name makes me think of Monty Python!
LOL
All the best celestial events seem to happen in dead of winter.
That was OK when I was up late keeping gals warm away from the parents house :)
Volcanic lul?? LOL!!
Good binocolars is all you need
A Scmidtt Cassrgrian may be overkill for the moon...
This will virtually guarantee overcast in Illinois.
Yay!
LOL
Even if you had a Koerig Coffee maker?
I have a Celestron C102-hd.
It hasn’t been used much here at the new pad due to move and cold nights.
At the old domicile, I had 0 viewing for it.
I checked with Celestron and the Skyris camera will work.
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