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http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sundays-lunar-eclipse-will-also-feature-a-supermoon/ar-AAezzUZ?li=AAa0dzB

USA Today
Doyle Rice
16 hrs ago



It hasn't happened in 32 years, and won't for another 18 years: Sunday evening, a total lunar eclipse will coincide with a "Supermoon."

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the full moon and the sun. The Earth's shadow covers the moon, which often has a red color, hence the "blood" moon nickname.

Although it's completely in the shadow of Earth, a bit of reddish sunlight still reaches the moon.

"That red light shining onto the moon is sunlight that has skimmed and bent through Earth's atmosphere: that is, from all the sunrises and sunsets that ring the world at any given moment," according to Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine.

The total eclipse will start at 10:11 p.m. EDT (7:11 p.m. PDT) Sunday evening and will last one hour and 12 minutes. It will be visible across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific, NASA said.

Weather permitting, folks in the eastern half of North America can watch every stage of the eclipse, from beginning to end of the partial phases, with the moon mostly high in the sky, Sky and Telescope reports.

In the West, the first partial stage of the eclipse will already be in progress when the moon rises in the east around sunset.

You don't need special glasses or gizmos to view it, unlike a solar eclipse, so feel free to stare directly at the moon. Binoculars or a telescope would improve the view.

YOUR TAKE:  Share your photos of the eclipse!

And what does a Supermoon mean? It just means the moon looks a bit bigger than usual since its a bit closer to the Earth than usual. "Because the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle, the moon is sometimes closer to the Earth than at other times during its orbit," NASA scientist Noah Petro said in a statement.

"There's no physical difference in the moon," Petro added. "It just appears slightly bigger in the sky. It's not dramatic, but it does look larger."

It's about 14% larger than normal, NASA reports.

What is uncommon is for a total lunar eclipse to coincide with a Supermoon. There have been just five such events since 1900 (in 1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982), NASA said.

This is the last total lunar eclipse visible anywhere on Earth until 2018, according to Sky and Telescope. Americans will actually see a total solar eclipse (in Aug. 2017) before the next total lunar eclipse.



and my fav site for this stuff...really cool animation

http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/

I need to remember to look for that.  I'm so stinkin tired by evening, I just want to crawl in a hole and pull it in after me.  That should be worth dragging myself outside for.

Shasta

Shasta check this link for the exact time in your area to see it..
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/


I'm collecting up some nice rocks  I have in the house for a moon bath to charge them..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-photos_55fb2ecde4b0fde8b0cd9c9c?utm_hp_ref=science&ir=Science&section=science

Eliza Sankar-Gorton
Editorial Fellow
Posted: 09/23/2015 04:15 PM EDT | Edited: 09/24/2015 12:52 PM EDT




vid at link

Smartphones have made it easy to capture all sorts of fleeting moments -- from a seal riding a whale to the pontiff gliding past in his popemobile.

But if you're hoping to capture an Instagram-perfect shot of this weekend's supermoon lunar eclipse, it will take a bit of preparation. After all, you'll be shooting a darkened moon against the night sky.

Luckily, three accomplished photographers were willing to share their secrets with The Huffington Post. Here's what astrophotographer Rogelio Andreo, Miriam Leuchter, editor-in-chief of Popular Photography and photographer Jason Gerard suggest

2nd vid at link

Keep your camera steady and your exposure long.
Whether you're using a smartphone, a point-and-shoot or a DSLR, keeping it steady is essential. As Andreo explains, "Taking photos at night almost always drives up the exposure time, which means you need a stable tripod to mount your camera to in order to keep your pictures from turning out blurry." If you don't have a tripod, try resting your camera on a stool, or just try this hack that uses a piece of string.

Once your lens is steady, long exposure will help capture details of the moon's surface despite the darkness. You'll probably have to download extra photo apps if you're working with a phone, but it's worth it. "An eclipsed moon is much darker than a full moon, so when capturing this eclipse, remember that your exposure time will need to be longer," Andreo says.

cartoon demonstration at link

Get some magnification.

There are two kinds of zoom. One is desirable for this purpose, and the other is not. With a point-and-shoot camera, zoom until your lens is fully extended toward your subject. But then stop. After the lens is fully extended, your camera switches over to 'digital zoom' -- which makes your photo look pixelated. It "just crops into your picture to make your subject take up more of the frame, but it isn't true telephoto," Leuchter explains.

If you have a smartphone, you likely only have digital zoom capability (unless it's the iPhone 6s), so try to avoid zooming altogether.

To really magnify, try holding your camera lens up to a telescope. Or, as another workaround, Leuchter suggests "putting your smartphone's lens up to the eyepiece of binoculars." There are even phone accessories to make your scoping setup simple and steady.


demo vid at link

Pay attention to composition.

Unless you're able to capture all the tiny details on the surface of the moon, you'll need other objects in the shot to make it interesting. Snap while the moon is low on the horizon, and "try to find interesting objects to juxtapose with the full moon, like shooting through trees, or using silhouettes and other objects to show size contrast," says Gerard.


vid

Use a self-timer
Sometimes you set up the perfect shot, but the act of actually pressing the button to snap the picture ruins it. A self-timer allows you to take a hands-off shot -- you can even download an app that does it for you! Gerard explains that "using a self-timing feature helps to prevent vibrations in the camera by allowing it to settle before it takes the picture."

vid

Happy shooting, and don't forget to tag #HPSuperEclipse when you post pictures -- we may feature your best snapshots! 






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David Freeman
Senior Science Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 09/23/2015 02:07 PM EDT | Edited: 09/24/2015 02:49 PM EDT

vid

Here's some welcome news for anyone who is worried--as some fundamentalists might be--that the upcoming "blood moon" means the world is coming to an end:



It isn't.



Astronomically speaking, "there is no such thing as a 'blood moon,'" Dr. Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., told The Huffington Post in an email. People who use that term are either "misguided or malicious," he added.



The moon will look reddish for a brief time on the night of Sept. 27-28. But that's only because the moon will be cast into shadow as the Earth passes between it and the sun--in other words, we're set to see a lunar eclipse.



In the U.S., the eclipse will begin at 9:07 p.m. E.T. and will last for more than three hours. What astronomers call "totality"--when the moon is fully enveloped within the Earth's shadow--will begin at 10:11 p.m. and last for 72 minutes.



Fair enough. But why exactly will the moon take on that crimson cast?



In a new video (above) posted on its website, NASA suggests a simple thought experiment can make it all clear:


Using your imagination, fly to the Moon and stand inside a dusty lunar crater. Look up. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside facing you, completely hiding the sun behind it. The eclipse is underway. You might suppose that the Earth overhead would be completely dark. After all, you're looking at the nightside of our planet. Instead, something amazing happens. When the sun is located directly behind Earth, the rim of the planet seems to catch fire! The darkened terrestrial disk is ringed by every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all at once. This light filters into the heart of Earth's shadow, suffusing it with a coppery glow. Back on Earth, the shadowed Moon becomes a great red orb.



In more scientific terms, the moon looks red during a lunar eclipse because of Rayleigh scattering. That's a phenomenon in which sunlight--essentially a mash-up of all the different colors of light--is scattered by Earth's atmosphere. Since blue light is scattered more than red light, it's essentially "filtered out" as it passes through the atmosphere--leaving red light to reach the moon.



You don't need any special equipment to see a lunar eclipse. But watching the action unfold with a telescope or binoculars will add to the fun. As astronomer Phil Plait wrote recently on  Slate, "The moon can take on an odd three-dimensional appearance when you use binoculars during an eclipse, and it's pretty cool to see."



This is the last total lunar eclipse until 2018, according to Sky & Telescope.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/get-ready-for-septembers-total-lunar-eclipse-091420155/
So enjoy the show!



NASA

?Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the relative positions of the Earth, moon, and sun that occur during a lunar eclipse.




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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/get-ready-for-septembers-total-lunar-eclipse-091420155/

Unlike the lunar eclipse last April 4th, which might not even have been precisely total, this one will carry the Moon through the umbra — the dark core of Earth's shadow — for 1 hour and 12 minutes. Moreover, it's a big eclipsed Moon! The closest lunar perigee of 2015 occurs just 59 minutes before mid-eclipse. The Moon (in Pisces) will appear 13% larger in diameter than it did when eclipsed last April. That's not enough for anyone but a devoted Moon watcher to really notice, but for a spectacle like a lunar eclipse, every little bit helps. See the diagram above for key times during the eclipse, given in Universal Time (GMT). Here's the schedule for the main time zones in North America - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/get-ready-for-septembers-total-lunar-eclipse-091420155/#sthash.imHjrHZT.dpuf


During the upcoming total lunar eclipse, the Moon will take about 3.3 hours to cross Earth's umbra.Sky & Telescope - See more at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/get-ready-for-septembers-total-lunar-eclipse-091420155/#sthash.imHjrHZT.dpuf
Sky & Telescope diagram

well I gotta give the morman church props..they have said it well
even though it is an OLD  new age utterance  ;D



The Mormon Church statement noted members are encouraged "to be spiritually and physically prepared for life's ups and downs'' and leaders "have counseled members that, where possible, they should gradually build a supply of food, water and financial resources to ensure they are self-reliant during disasters and the normal hardships that are part of life, including illness, injury or unemployment."

However, the statement adds, "This teaching to be self-reliant has been accompanied by the counsel of Church leaders to avoid being caught up in extreme efforts to anticipate catastrophic events."



entire article here to see how it goes with the supermoon stuff
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sunday-night%e2%80%99s-blood-moon-prediction-irksome-for-mormon-church/ar-AAePyeJ?li=BBgzzfc

I was calibrating my cameras last night for tonights blood moon photo shoot.

One full moon shot from last night.


(http://s29.postimg.org/bsf9yy7hz/20150926_200154.jpg)



Full moon shot during eclipse 2014



(http://s18.postimg.org/vfqqjhfrt/Moon2014.jpg)

Tonight's eclipse is too late for me, close to 3 AM. :(

Even if I'm awake at that time I don't know if I can see the Moon from my apartment, it may be above the building and out of view.

we haven't had more than a drop of rain for two whole months..but of course tonight it is already clouding over...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/viewing-conditions-supermoon-to-coincide-with-lunar-eclipse-in-rare-celestial-event-sunday-night/ar-AAeGEUE?li=BBgzzfc

(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAeQ8Cj.img?h=366&w=650&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=323&y=217)

A storm system will spoil the chance for clear skies for much of the East Coast. With an Atlantic storm looming offshore, the storm's ultimate path will dictate which areas have an increase in cloud coverage.




(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDOCYjG54ugYfi_eDyor73mml7S86VKS8oVnbvGodUMssgO2mt) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Quote from: space otter on September 27, 2015, 09:47:57 PM
we haven't had more than a drop of rain for two whole months..but of course tonight it is already clouding over...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

It figures. Same here, and it is already heavy overcast.

:(

Clear sailin here!

I will take some pics.

In honor of tonight's moon -

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=2123.msg118892#msg118892 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=2123.msg118892#msg118892)

Can watch the live stream here -

http://time.com/4050491/super-moon-eclipse-live-stream-watch/ (http://time.com/4050491/super-moon-eclipse-live-stream-watch/)


eta: since those guys are streaming the pope right now, here is a list of different sites that are streaming live -

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/supermoon_lunar_eclipse_2015_l.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/supermoon_lunar_eclipse_2015_l.html)

Heavy clouds all day in green bay wi. Now clouds have cleared out. Looks like I'll be snapping pics

These guys have best stream going -  8)

http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/mega-harvest-moon-eclipse (http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/mega-harvest-moon-eclipse)

As my younger sister borrowed my camera I had to use my other sister's camera, with less zoom than mine, and this is what I got.

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r66/armap/Dsc_0173%201.jpg)

(http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l595/A51Watcher/snap1_zpsdm4tt42k.png)

(http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l595/A51Watcher/snap2_zpszswjybuk.png)

September 27, 2015 full moon eclipse


(http://s9.postimg.org/kjggs4g9r/moon1.jpg)


(http://s7.postimg.org/b8p0zf83f/moon2.jpg)


(http://s24.postimg.org/bsyuhtwo5/moon3.jpg)


(http://s13.postimg.org/qyzr6qlev/moon4.jpg)


(http://s22.postimg.org/y7jll7jmp/moon5.jpg)

Nice shots Gigas!  8)

My attempts at getting shots were a dismal failure.

Lux capability appears to be zero lol

Armap, Gigas and A51, thank you!

;D

Very Good! The sky was mostly overcast a was mostly overcast at my house in Texas, so I did not actually see very much of this happening! :( And........I do not plan to be around for the next one!! :))

wow..thanks guys..much appreciated

but still wish I could have seen it myself...sigh

Hi Everyone,

Here are 3 pics I took from the phone held to the eyepiece of the telescope.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskkEZvju 


LSWONE.

Quote from: LSWONE on September 28, 2015, 08:07:04 PM
Hi Everyone,

Here are 3 pics I took from the phone held to the eyepiece of the telescope.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskkEZvju 


LSWONE.

Thanks LSWONE - very nice personal pics of the Moon, just for us!!  :)

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03455/supermoon-moon_3455459b.jpg)