Follow the Blood Moon now

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2018/jul/27/blood-moon-2018-follow-lunar-eclipse-live

[NCTraveler]

1. Why does it hate the US? nt

[malaise]

4. Hates me too in the Caribbean

[HipChick]

10. I 'm nearby on the island

of St.Lucia...can't see shite either...but going to sit out on the veranda anyway....I'm sure folks passing by, will call me an Obeah woman... talking to the moon...

[malaise]

11. Bwaaaahhhhhh

You are so Caribbean

[HipChick]

12. I am that...I invited Wray and Nephew

too...going to sit out here and holler at the moon..

[malaise]

14. Howling with laughter

For the moon

[mitch96]

19. "will call me an Obeah woman"

Is that any relation to Obeah-Juan Kenobi?

m

[Solly Mack]

2. Thanks!

[meadowlander]

3. We got to see it (and the sun in the sky at the same time)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/105775634/on-saturday-youll-be-able-to-see-the-sun-and-an-eclipsed-moon-in-the-sky-at-once

So cool

[malaise]

5. Very cool

[malaise]

6. Fascinating from your link

It's called a selenelion and it's when you can see an eclipsed Moon on the western horizon and the rising Sun on the eastern horizon.

It sounds impossible - an eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a straight line - meaning you couldn't see the Moon and the Sun at the same time.

However, the bending - or refraction - of the rays of light caused by our atmosphere by about half a degree makes it possible to see both.

...........
Learned a new word too - selenelion.

[roamer65]

7. 21 Jan 2019

That is the next full lunar eclipse that will grace the Western Hemisphere in its entirety.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Crap, we're all smoked in from the Shasta fire and won't be able to see squat

Hell, everything will be a hazy red.

The only upside to the fire: the smoke layer dropped the temperature from yesterdays triple digits to a comfortable mid-eighties today (maybe low nineties by sunset).

[malaise]

9. Stay safe

I'll take a Cat5 hurricane over a fire every day of the week.

[Tipperary]

13. Will not be able to see it here. Bah humbug.

But I enjoyed the story about Columbus and the moon.

[canetoad]

15. Taken about 5.30 am

In my backyard. Time here is UTC -11.

[malaise]

16. That is beautiful

Thanks mate.

[canetoad]

17. It was pretty special

I always get up early, around 4am, so circumstances were all in place. It's mid-winter but has been exceptionally clear for days. After taking a few pix, we took the dogs to the beach in the dark and watched the moon fade. Didn't see the selenelion (thanks for the new word!) but did see a couple of satellites.

Will you get to see it there?

[malaise]

18. No- it will be over by the time it's dark here

In two and a half hours.

Not my word - it was in the link from meadowlander.