Rare Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Tonight January 20

**Here’s How to Watch the Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse This Weekend **

Naturally lots of us would be out there for several hours watching this eclipse tonight (even though it will be 1 degree below zero where I live))–unfortunately poor viewing conditions much of the U.S.

Hopefully there will lots of Dopers reporting about the viewing experience tomorrow.

I set an alarm yesterday so I wouldn’t forget! Working till 11 p.m. so I’ll wander outside as soon as I’m off.

Yesterday’s crappy weather has cleared up nicely, so I should be able to see it right out my window. Thanks for the reminder!

From what I’ve read, however, this won’t really look significantly different from any other lunar eclipse.

But, dude, it’s Super! And bloody… and *arooooooooo… *wolfy!

I’m painting a Super Bloody Wolf howling at the moon on my 70s van right now!

Mandatory t-shirt to be wearing tonight.

Big storm raining/snowing stalled right over me. :frowning: Oh well. These things never live up to the hype.

I hope the clouds clear up. It’s look real pretty over the snow/ice glazed landscape.

I’m not going to try taking photos - It’s going to be too high in the sky to be very photogenic.
Oh, well…

I need to point out that adding “wolf” is kinda meaningless, it’s not astronomical, it’s just means a Full moon in January, which we have every year. Sometimes twice even.

With winds in the 20’s & gusts to 39mph, I don’t even think my Manfrotto tripod will be able to keep the big lens steady enough to get good pics.

Two full moons in a month? That’s gotta be rare; I bet that happens only once in a blue moon.

Aw, that would have been a Super Blue Blood Wolf Moon eclipse.

Justlike last year except for the eclipse part.

Well it’s beautifully clear here in the Pacific Northwest and right now at 5:48 the moon is super full, incredibly bright and big. I’ve looked at the moon many times through my binoculars and I’m able to see lots of extra details that way. It’s so bright right now that all I can see is a very bright circle.

Mostly Cloudy here, but I can see the Moon through the clouds…awesome sight

Very bright here, too and way up high in the sky.

Couple minutes after 10 p.m. local - there’s an odd disk covering the lower half of the moon.

Surely the gods are angry! I tremble, and shall sacrifice a goat.

What a great show! This is the best Lunar eclipse I’ve ever been able to watch irl. Perfectly clear sky, huge moon that I can see while sitting here on my porch.

Fantastic here in the midwest. Crisp cold clear calm night. No clouds, no humidity, 20 miles from town. Yard lights turned off. No work in the morning. No excuses for anyone in my house to not see the best eclipse they will ever have an opportunity to witness.
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Who has been doing all this marketing for the moon lately? Super rare, super blood wolf moon eclipse? Didn’t we just have a super rare super blue blood moon just not too long ago? Weren’t these all just simply “lunar eclipses” when we were growing up, some with the moon marginally closer to the earth than others?

That’s the coolest astronomical thing I’ve ever seen. It’s so colourful! There’s white, blue, grey, red. What great luck for there to be no cloud cover here tonight!