Jan
20th
2019
Lunar Eclipse · 11:10pm Jan 20th, 2019
If you live on this side of the planet, then take a look outside tonight for the lunar eclipse.
Check the time at https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2019-january-21 (Map taken from there. Luna mugshot from here)
Meanwhile you can read my story Once in a Rainbow Moon and explanatory physics blog post Blue Moons and Luna Eclipses.
Weather forecast is not too promising here, but hoping there will be a gap between the clouds.
I am not going to copy all the science writers (or more likely their editors) labelling it a “super blood wolf moon” as this is getting silly.
We're edging dangerously close to "awesome band name" territory there.
I am just inside the right side of the planet but while the sky was clear and I had a *beautiful* view of Luna earlier today it has since gotten very cloudy and foggy
Wonder if the ISS crew will get to see any of it? they got a good photo of a solar eclipse before?
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Like a twelve-year-old that just discovered vikings.
It's raining in the Bay Area right now, but I'll try in an hour. Hopefully it'll clear enough to see it at full. Thanks!
We have enough high clouds here all we can see of the moon is a fuzzy blotch. Darnit. At least we have the internet.
Nice to see our Lunar Princess placing her seal of approval on the orbital map.
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Beautifully clear here outside Seattle. Luna is looking rust-red tonight.
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Why's she lurking in the shadows? I wonder what she's hiding?)
I saw it. ¡It was cool!
By the way, I tried to bring this eclipse up with a Flat-Earther at work. I made the mistake of bringing up the Sun, and that triggered him into preaching about the Son of God. The Flat-Earthers all seem to be Biblical Literalists:
I wonder whether we sciency types might be responsible for the resurgence of Flat-Earthism:
When they supported Creationism with Biblical examples, we pointed out the evidence for an old universe and biological evolution and pointed out that they cherry-picked. On the cherry-picking front, we pointed out that they Bible says that the Earth is flat. I suspect, that rather than making them take the Bible less Literally, we made them believe that the Earth is flat by pointing out that is what the Bible says.
And I just read about it on Friday and decided to go outside for it and watch it..... Then forgot it, slipped through the holes in my brain like water in a broken bottle..... I don't understand how I always end up missing these kind of astronomic, moon-related events, but I'm probably just not meant to see them.
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Sadly a cloud-filled sky was all I got when I woke up at 5 this morning.
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Now we just need to find a way to include dinosaurs.
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Lucky you. What do flat Earthers expect from a lunar eclipse? The shadow of a giant turtle moving across the moon?
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They got one last year. I haven't seen any this time.
https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex/status/1022945849855356933
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I can feel the collective IQ of the human race plummet every time a flat-Earther speaks.
On the bright side, the sky was clear at 630am and the moon was a huge sphere in the sky. Gorgeous even though it wasn't orange...
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I am sad to learn that.
Considering that he preached about the Son of God until I escaped, I do not believe so.
This particular flat-earther, I have no idea because once he went into preacher-mode, that was the end of the conversation about the eclipse. Flat-Earthers on the InterNet seem to have no consensus, but a dark red something moving in front of the moon seems popular.
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¡An Asteroid hit the Moon during the Lunar Eclipse!
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Now I feel bad for you missing it. I was in the EST zone and had a perfect view of it. 'Went outside and stared at it for ten seconds, and went back in because it was freezing.
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Oh wow I didn't even know that. That's amazing