Lunar Eclipse 2019: How to watch the “super blood wolf moon” – overnight January 20-21, 2019

//Lunar Eclipse 2019: How to watch the “super blood wolf moon” – overnight January 20-21, 2019

Lunar Eclipse 2019: How to watch the “super blood wolf moon” – overnight January 20-21, 2019

Skywatchers across the continental U.S. will be treated to a total lunar eclipse overnight on Jan. 20-21, when Earth’s shadow sweeps over the lunar surface to give it a reddish tinge and turn it into what some call a “blood moon.”

This will be the first lunar eclipse of 2019 and the last total lunar eclipse until 2021. It coincides with the year’s first full moon — a “wolf moon” in the folklore tradition because it occurs at a time of year when wolves howl outside villages — and comes when the moon is slightly bigger and brighter because it’s at the closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit.

Since it’s a so-called supermoon that’s being shadowed, some media outlets have dubbed this eclipse a “super blood wolf moon.”

For more info:  https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/lunar-eclipse-2019-how-watch-super-blood-wolf-moon-ncna954941
2019-01-08T20:55:18+00:00January 8th, 2019|