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Super Flower Blood Full Moon Eclipse more than Fulfilled its Promise

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Visible in the Western U.S. states early Wednesday

This kickoff to the Lunar eclipses for the year will be the fantastically named “Super Flower Blood Moon”. Although the visibility during the eclipse will vary across the nation, the west coast will have a great, bright vantage, where clear skies oblige.

Also, unlike solar eclipses the Lunar variety is completely safe to view with the naked eye. Just watch your forecast as clouds vs. clear skies will be the determining factor when it comes to visibility.

The “flower” moniker is perhaps less significant than it sounds, but no less poetic. Call the flower moon due to that simple fact that it occurs in late May, coincident with the spring bloom.

Although there were four penumbral lunar eclipses in 2020, they were less spectacular that what is anticipated for the one we will get on May 26th. That’s because this month’s total lunar eclipse will have a more obvious darkening phases as the moon passes through the umbra, Earth’s inner, darker shadow.

The eclipse will be at least partly visible in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, while the total phase will only be seen from some of these locations. In the case of North America, the eclipse’s total phase, the time during which the moon turns orange or red in color, will only be seen from the western U.S., British Columbia, Alaska and parts of western Mexico.

Alternatively, if the full Super Flower Blood Moon has got you curious but you are not in the ideal spot to view from your backyard, livestreams will be hosted by observatories and astronomers around the world.

The west coast is the best coast for this moon

The rest of North America will only see the first part of the eclipse before the moon will set in the western sky. There will still be something worth seeing but it will be a partial view of the entire event.

If you are in the Los Angeles area Wednesday morning these are points worth noting:

  • Total duration: 4 hours, 6 minutes
  • Penumbral begins: 1:47 a.m. Wednesday
  • Partial begins: 2:44 a.m. Wednesday
  • Full begins: 4:11 a.m. Wednesday
  • Maximum: 4:18 a.m. Wednesday
  • Full ends: 4:25 a.m. Wednesday
  • Moonset: 5:52 a.m. Wednesday

If you are a photographer please be aware that the moon, at any time, is hard to capture without powerful telephoto lenses. A cell phone will retrieve an image but the distant orb will be far more visible with magnification.

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The moon has many meanings and astrologically the event is significant also

Any discussion of all things lunar, blood moons and eclipses would certainly be congruent with a taste of the astrological perspective. We have it on good authority that this will be a Sagittarius full moon. There haas been prognostication that this will be a very challenging and “difficult” full moon eclipse, there are also signs that it will mark triumphs for some in the career dept., even accolades and awards.

A “major project” could be coming to a happy conclusion. As is always the case with Full moon lunar eclipses, if things are unclear and seem oddly incomplete, waiting 30 days can often bring the resolution that you are awaiting.

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Full moon and Lunar Eclipse coming in Early Hours of November 30: “beaver moon”

Penumbral eclipse, a.k.a. partial eclipse will be visible in US early Monday

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On the final day of November 2020 a shining orb will enlighten the early morning skys,  due to a partial lunar eclipse occurring during the full “beaver moon”.  The nickname “Beaver Moon” stems from the fact that it occurs during the time of year when beavers build their winter dams before the coldest time of winter. 

In the early days of the nation, Algonquin Native American tribes and American colonists gave nicknames to each full moon. The names chosen were based on hunting trends, farming routines and weather conditions at the time of the year that each took place.

The fullest phase will be reached at 1:30 a.m. Pacific time. The moon will look big and bright in the sky both Sunday night and  also on Tuesday, December 1st, providing that cloud cover is not so thick as to prevent visibility. 

The eclipse spectacle will be partial, but spectacular nonetheless. The full “glide across” will take several hours and, unlike solar eclipses, the lunar variation is perfectly safe to view; though a telescope or with the naked eye.

“the moon will take 4 hours and 21 minutes to glide across the pale outer fringe (penumbra) of Earth’s shadow, never reaching the shadow’s dark umbra,” 

— Space.com astronomy writer Joe Rao

In the case of a full lunar eclipse instead of a partial one, such as this one, the entire moon would be  darkened for a short time, and give off a reddish-orange tint on the edges.

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