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Super Flower Blood Moon

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When to See This Month's 'Super Flower Blood Moon' (lifehacker.com)

What a mouthful for this moon.

Super moon:
This particular moon, according to the Farmer’s Almanac, will be the biggest moon of the year for anyone gazing upward without the aid of binoculars or a telescope.

Flower:
The term “flower” doesn’t come from nowhere, either: May’s full moon is traditionally called the Flower Moon, stemming (pun alert) from its association with the bloom of spring.

Blood moon:
It’s the product of a lunar eclipse, as the moon inches closer to Earth than it will all month, with fragments of sunlight drenching the lunar surface with a deep, reddish sheen.

What's missing is the Blue moon:
it could have been Super Blue Flower Blood Moon or Super Flower Blue Blood Moon. 😛

the next one is May 26, 2021
 
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will be visible from Australia, parts of the western US, western South America, and South-East Asia.
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Zorba said:
It's because every year they make up new stupid names and then try to Ret Con them to have meaning.

Please make it stop.
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Not necessarily. It's just that there are many different names for each full moon & i suppose depending on which article you read they might call it different things.
This is just one source:
The Full Moon in May is known as the Flower Moon. Other names include the Corn Planting Moon, and the Milk Moon, while some named it the Hare Moon.
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Also, if anyone is interested, there a comet roughly above the hindquarters of Leo right now. Probably need a scope to see it though.
C/2020 R4 (ATLAS)

Before that pesky moon gets any brighter.
 
Spacehead said:
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Not necessarily. It's just that there are many different names for each full moon & i suppose depending on which article you read they might call it different things.
This is just one source:
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Yeah, I'm sure someone somewhere has used the names before, but I'd want to see the texts where large parts of society used any of these stupid names and it isn't just media companies trying to get clicks.

Until 2 years ago I never saw anything other than "super moon." Since that term was a marketing success, the marketing people do what they a k ways do and piled on.
 
I was driving home last night and it was pretty awesome to see that red moon rising over the horizon. My wife wasn't able to see it from the house when I called, but it eventually got high enough in the sky to see.
 
Scarpozzi said:
I was driving home last night and it was pretty awesome to see that red moon rising over the horizon. My wife wasn't able to see it from the house when I called, but it eventually got high enough in the sky to see.
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by the time the clouds cleared (dc area) from the rain, it was just a white moon.
missed the Blood moon 🙁
 
My thinking was you seen one you seen 'em all. I'd trade 1000 of these for one total solar eclipse.

Still, I did see this one. It wasn't centered, but was total anyway. What made it 20x better was using my binoculars. I'm thinking maybe I should get a telescope. Suggestions?
 
Muse said:
My thinking was you seen one you seen 'em all. I'd trade 1000 of these for one total solar eclipse.

Still, I did see this one. It wasn't centered, but was total anyway. What made it 20x better was using my binoculars. I'm thinking maybe I should get a telescope. Suggestions?
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I kind of agree....however you have to be in particular latitudes for that and optimal viewing is often NOT where you are. If you happen to be dead center on a solar eclipse, it's pretty awesome, but driving 5 hours away to see one and then missing it due to cloud cover would suck. We lucked out a few years ago when the last one passed over....clear skies and we saw most of it. I remember how the skies dimmed, the street lamps came on mid-day, and the birds started tweeting as if it were twilight....was pretty interesting.

For the regular lunar stuff that's not a solar eclipse, it's pretty nice when you just happen to see a blood red super moon over the horizon when you don't expect it. You might just pause for a minute and appreciate it without preparation.
 
Muse said:
My thinking was you seen one you seen 'em all. I'd trade 1000 of these for one total solar eclipse.
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Start thinking about 2024 if you're at all interested in traveling to see a total solar eclipse.
en.wikipedia.org

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 - Wikipedia

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Muse said:
Still, I did see this one. It wasn't centered, but was total anyway. What made it 20x better was using my binoculars. I'm thinking maybe I should get a telescope. Suggestions?
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Do a search in your area for an astronomy club. That way you can get the "hands on" experience. It'll help you decide some things to consider... what can a really see in a x inch scope, what do i want to look at, size, portability, setup? Lots of things to consider when buying one. Really helps to actually looks though several different types other than just looking at a catalog.
 
@Spacehead: Yes, and thank you... I have been thinking of traveling to see a total eclipse of the sun. I missed out on the 2017 one. My nephew's wife's mother had a cabin near Boise Idaho where it was total, and some family convened there. I was too shy to ask if I could tag along, which I regret. A friend of mine did drive to Oregon and he sent me photos.

Well, my parents spent their adolescence and met in Burlington, VT and my brother was born there. I've never been to the state, was born in Manhattan. Maybe I'll go there and see the place and the eclipse.

A cousin has a house in Poughkeepsie NY, don't know if that's in the path, it's sort of upstate NY, so maybe.

Or, maybe Austin, TX. It's the one place in Texas I'd want to see most. Indianapolis would seem to be a possibility for a visitor.

Weather would matter, meaning the likelihood of good weather on April 8, 2024. I'm in the SF Bay Area, so driving would seem to be not in the cards.

Using my binoculars Wednesday morning, I had the idea that a telescope would have to have some kind of tracking mechanism to be very useful if it is very powerful. The moon seemed to be falling into the horizon, being actually the earth continuing to turn, the illusion being that the moon was "setting."
 
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