www.skyandtelescope.org copy pastes.

[jusplay4fun]

---------2026 A.D. ???....We still have a long way to go in 2025 A.D....Well maybe... ....I was praying more for Nostradamus' prediction....3797 A.D....... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

Your previous post did not give a year:

Well not tomorrow but next Thursday February 13 at night/February 14 morning...There will be a Total Lunar Eclipse...Where the Moon turns Blood Red

by ConfederateSS on Wed Mar 05, 2025 11:39 am

So you tell me the year, ConfedSS. What does NEXT MEAN here?

[ConfederateSS]

-------------Here we are Next ....[size=200]NEXT.... Thursday/Friday....Just like that....You a Professor .....
----------- Thursday night/Friday morning...At 2:59 am...The MOON will be Blood Red...It Starts at 11:59 pm....Lasts Through 4:21 am...I'll be in the backyard from 2:45am---3:15am...or later ...It's chilly, but not to bad...A cloud here and there, but The MOON is visible.....I've got a bottle of the good stuff to keep warm...Who needs a jacket ...[/size]... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...
--------- I'll report when I am back inside...With an empty bottle... ...maybe 5:00am...
---------THE YEAR of DOOM.......3797 A.D....So everyone is O.K. for now... ...
--------- I don't know if they will have the real event...But Google has a little moving clip of what it looks like....I am not trying to be/say anything Jp4fun... Maybe you can post Google's clip that tells the time/path...., That would be KOOL.......

[jusplay4fun]

Sorry, ConfedSS. It was cloudy here in VA and I was not going to be able to see, and thus I had little motivation to see it or post anything. And I did not want angry parents if I encouraged students to get up in the middle of the night and go outside.

And why does the moon appear RED? I wanted to be sure, so I will paste that.The link here has a good diagram.

What exactly causes a "Blood Moon"?
A "Blood Moon" happens during a total lunar eclipse, when the sun, Earth and the moon align in that order. Long wavelengths of sunlight are refracted through Earth's atmosphere before reaching the moon, which reflects them in reddish hues that may resemble the color of blood.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-causes-blood-moon/

[ConfederateSS]

--------I don't know if The MOON had something to do with it...But my WiFi was acting funny this morning when I went inside...When I tried to post...Anyway Jp4fun, I asked if you could post a picture of The MOON turning RED... Google had it...I make it a thing not to learn (For The Good of C.C.LAND, Then I would post pics, Duk would have to keep telling me to stop... It's better I leave that alone)...
---------- It was KOOL, The MOON turning RED, and the Air around me, kind felt like being on The MOON...Dark out, freezing... Couldn't this happen in July... ... Maybe next time...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... ...I will keep an eye out (The End of Us is 100s of years away...)...I'll will keep an eye out for The 10 Plagues of Egypt though...Well for the The END....But also, Moses should be coming soon...He comes every year around Easter Time...The Ten Commandments......

[jusplay4fun]

Do you realize how many times someone predicted the END of the world? It is ASTOUNDING.

Try this, for "starters":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

[jusplay4fun]

Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow

Explanation: What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full for several days, the Moon is truly at its full phase when it is Pi radians (aka 180 degrees) from the Sun in ecliptic longitude. That's opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. Rising as the Sun set on March 9, 2020, only an hour or so after the moment of its full phase, this orange tinted and slightly flattened Moon still looked full. It was photographed opposite the setting Sun from Teide National Park on the Canary Island of Tenerife. Also opposite the setting Sun, seen from near the Teide volcano peak about 3,500 meters above sea level, is the mountain's rising triangular shadow extending into Earth's dense atmosphere. Below the distant ridge line on the left are the white telescope domes of Teide Observatory. Today, March 14 2025, the moon is Pi radians from the Sun at exactly 06:55 UTC. That's about three minutes before the midpoint of the March Full Moon's total lunar eclipse.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250314.html


AND, For those missing sky and telescope pastes:

The waning Moon, approaching last quarter, stands high in the south in early dawn, crossing Scorpius. (The best view of the background stars is before dawn begins, meaning at least 90 or 100 minutes before sunrise.)

https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/sky-at-a-glance/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-march-14-23/

[jusplay4fun]

IDK, Duk, are you in the area affected?

Sunrise Solar Eclipse on March 29th for Eastern North America

(...)
the Moon will still lie close enough to the Sun-Earth plane to stoke a deep partial solar eclipse on Saturday, March 29th, for observers in the northeastern U.S., eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Northwest Africa, and northwestern Russia.

The map shows the extent of the eclipse visibility zone. For U.S. observers, the eclipse will only be visible in the Eastern Time Zone from Maine to northern North Carolina and as far west as the Buffalo, New York area.
Sky & Telescope diagram

At greatest eclipse, the Moon will cloak 93.1% of the Sun from Nunavik, which comprises the northern third of Canada's Québec province. Northern Maine will have similarly impressive views with 86% of the Sun covered — the maximum possible from the U.S. — shortly after local sunrise. Weather permitting, eclipse-goers will thrill to a thin solar crescent rising "horns first" around 6:15 a.m. local time. For all U.S. locations, the Sun will rise already in eclipse and, from most locations, moving out of eclipse. Finding an unobstructed east-northeast horizon will be a priority if you want to catch as many precious minutes as possible.

The Moon will cover varying amounts of the Sun depending on location. The farther south along the Eastern Seaboard you are, the smaller the obscuration. Bostonians will see just over half the Sun (57%) eclipsed, while in New York City, the percentage drops to 27%. Farther south and west in Washington D.C. the Moon consumes just 3% — barely a nibble! Check the table below for additional cities and times.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/sunrise-solar-eclipse-for-eastern-north-america/

I am not sure this will be worth it for me to even TRY to see it.

[Dukasaur]

Technically right on the edge of the outer zone. If we had clear skies, might just see a tiny sliver of effect. But there's a big cloud over us this weekend which will probably render it moot.

[jusplay4fun]

Technically right on the edge of the outer zone. If we had clear skies, might just see a tiny sliver of effect. But there's a big cloud over us this weekend which will probably render it moot.

Indeed, clouds RUIN the best-laid plans of Astronomers.

When I saw the rings of Saturn and the 4 main moons of Jupiter some 15-20 years ago (in 2007 or so) with my own eyes and using someone's telescope, I was told that the members of the local Astronomy group had set up TWO previous dates and were "clouded out" due to overcast skies. I got lucky that the ONE time I went, that the clouds did not interfere.

There were 3 telescopes, one on Jupiter, one on Saturn, and one electronically controlled devices fixed on a very distant nebula. That was a cool electronic machine (taking into account the rotation of the earth and having an auto find feature), but I saw nothing, probably in part that I wear glasses (or contacts). Removing my glasses that night did not help.

My viewing of the 4 main moons (Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto) of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn was VERY SIGNIFICANT for me. That is what Galileo saw with his telescope in 1610 or so. This was part of the Scientific Revolution supported by Galileo (started, basically, by Copernicus) that was helio-centric and contractory to the prevailing Ptolemaic (geocentric) model of the Universe. Those sightings are VERY important in the History of Science. Galileo wrote about them in his 1610 book the Starry Messenger (Siderus Nuncius).

[jusplay4fun]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250320.html

NASA Photo/Copy & Paste

The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project

Image Credit & Copyright: Hunter Wells

Explanation: Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken on the indicated dates only at 18:38 UTC from the exact same location south of Stephenville, Texas. The Sun's position on the 2024 solstice dates of June 20 and December 21 would be at the top and bottom of the curve and correspond to the astronomical beginning of summer and winter in the north. Points that lie along the curve half-way between the solstices would mark the equinoxes. The 2024 equinox on September 22, and in 2025 the equinox on March 20 (today) are the start of northern fall and spring. And since one of the exposures was made on 2024 April 8 from the Stephenville location at 18:38:40 UTC, this analemma project also reveals the solar corona in planet Earth's sky during a total solar eclipse.

The April 8 Eclipse is in the Middle of the Figure 8. The dates are labelled in one shot, but I cannot copy and paste that image. Go to the URL to see the dates, if you want.