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Blood Red Moon tonight

SharkE — Mon, 16 May 2022 02:23:14 GMT

I think around 11 if I’m still around I’m gonna try and take a pic with my phone

camera

saw one couple of yrs ago . prettiest thing you ever seen.

check online be midnight for the East

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Desertdi — Mon, 16 May 2022 02:32:30 GMT

@SharkE wrote:
I think around 11 if I’m still around I’m gonna try and take a pic with my phone
camera

saw one couple of yrs ago . prettiest thing you ever seen.

check online be midnight for the East

@SharkE There is also a lunar eclipse tonight

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Kachina624 — Mon, 16 May 2022 02:45:06 GMT

I thought the occasion was an eclipse ending a little after 10 pm here. Our local meteorologists have been talking about it. Didn't mention a word about a red moon.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Cakers3 — Mon, 16 May 2022 02:47:49 GMT

We will also have the full view around 11 pm.

Quite a beautiful sight.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

shoesnbags — Mon, 16 May 2022 02:54:18 GMT

From my local news station:

Look up tonight! You won't want to miss the 'super flower blood moon.'

First off, what’s a "blood moon?"

When there’s a total lunar eclipse, the sunlight gets reflected and refracted through the earth’s atmosphere in such a way that it gives the moon a reddish hue.

So, why is it called the "super flower blood moon?"

It's called a super moon because the moon is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit, so it will look bigger and brighter than normal.

It's called a flower moon because that is the name given to the May full moon due to the country being in the heart of spring.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Jk9 — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:05:35 GMT

We are totally socked in with rain and clouds! Just went out and checked the moon's location with sky view....can't see the moon at all for the heavy cloud cover.

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Venezia — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:14:58 GMT

@Jk9 - Same where I am. Typical - any special celestial event, we get horrible weather and cloud cover. We don't even bother to look anymore.

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smoochy — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:31:26 GMT

Watching it as we speak. Beautiful and eerie. It's total now and has taken on the reddish hue Clear night in the Tampa Bay area

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AKgirl2 — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:45:12 GMT

@SharkE ~ Should be visible around 10:47p here in Alaska.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

homedecor1 — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:51:39 GMT

@smoochy

Im also in Tampa area and seeing it clearly. Right now it's a beautiful shade of "red"--something beautiful to see!

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

smoochy — Mon, 16 May 2022 03:53:44 GMT

@homedecor1 wrote:
@smoochy

Im also in Tampa area and seeing it clearly. Right now it's a beautiful shade of "red"--something beautiful to see!

Hi neighbor 🥰 I always marvel at what God has created. This phenomenon is especially magical and mysterious

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

colliemom4 — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:10:33 GMT

The moon was very full and orangey looking but I can no longer see it. It definitely wasn't red. I heard that it would be blood red as well. It was certainly pretty.

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on the bay — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:25:09 GMT

About 11:30 I saw a partial eclipse of the moon which I don't remember ever seeing! Then about 11:50 the eclipse went away and the moon looked a pretty orange red but more orange. Then at 12:11 when I read we could see the peak of the blood red moon it seemed the moon disappeared and I couldn't see it at all. don't know if that was because of clouds or was that when it was a total eclipse? I thought that was when it would be most red.

Anyway it was very neat to see it.

Still the most amazing moon I ever saw was a huge moon that seemed to cover the sky and it was an incredible shade of bright orange.

Maybe that was a Harvest moon? I'll never forget it.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

SharkE — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:36:53 GMT

shoot ! I was hoping the white moon would stay where I could watch it.

It went inside the clouds and I waited for it to come back out red and it had moved South on me. Couldn't see from the window any more. Don't want to stay up all night and don't like to be outside in the dark either.

Booger bear may get me guess I'll watch it on the NASA site. LOL

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Love my grandkids — Mon, 16 May 2022 05:13:21 GMT

@on the bay I've seen a lot of Harvest Moons and they are always in the fall of course because that's when harvesting takes place! I love seeing them.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

Tinkrbl44 — Mon, 16 May 2022 06:37:01 GMT

In my neck of the woods, it was supposed to be visible from approximately 8:29pm pacific time, and would last about 90 minutes.

Wow ... lovely and the most unusual eclipse I've seen ... really gorgeous. Glad I made the effort to get out the binoculars and camera ... and snap a few photos.

Re: Blood Red Moon tonight

chrystaltree — Mon, 16 May 2022 18:13:31 GMT

In my part of MA, we saw a large full moon but not the red moon.