# Rare Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Tonight January 20 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114 "2019-01-20T18:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/41 "2019-01-22T03:41:31Z")
Here, this is a better link. It clearly shows the colours I saw last night: > **[Total lunar eclipse woos sky watchers](https://phys.org/news/2019-01-total-lunar-eclipse-woos-sky.html)** > > An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for sky watchers in Europe, Africa and the Americas, where the moon was fully obscured before lighting up again with a faint red glow. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/42 "2019-01-22T04:00:14Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Here, this is a better link. It clearly shows the colours I saw last night: > > [Total lunar eclipse woos sky watchers](https://phys.org/news/2019-01-total-lunar-eclipse-woos-sky.html) Thanks! What I saw wasn’t that intense but it might have been due to our location. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/43 "2019-01-22T04:19:15Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Thanks! What I saw wasn’t that intense but it might have been due to our location. Probably. It was bitterly cold last night where I am, so I only went out twice at around the time of the peak eclipse, but it looked much like the picture at the 4:00 o’clock position – most of the moon a dark reddish-orange. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/44 "2019-01-22T13:36:38Z")
Yeah, forgot to mention that I also saw the 2017 solar eclipse. So a total solar and a total lunar in less than a year and half. Probably will never beat that. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/45 "2019-01-22T15:34:46Z")
That was fuckin’ heavy metal, man. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/46 "2019-01-22T18:42:45Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > So how orange or red did the moon actually look to you? I only saw the very slightest orange tint here, yet the photos I am seeing online are very orange. This makes me wonder how much of that was real and how much was Photoshop. The photo I posted previously wasn’t edited at all, straight out of the camera. But in real life it was even redder than that! You could see a lot of sunset shades from oranges to blues and grays in the moon, it was quite spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/47 "2019-01-22T19:11:33Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Of course, cloud cover rolled in on my part of Chicago, so I could barely see the thing at all. … Too bad for you. Was crystal clear in W burbs (Elmhurst). I stayed up past my bedtime ;), and stepped outside every 15 min or so. Totality was about as neat as I’ve seen. Damned cold, tho! Wife had her scope set up and binos out. I saw totality through both, and called it a night. She stayed up throughout - said clouds started building near end. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/48 "2019-01-22T19:43:51Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Too bad for you. Was crystal clear in W burbs (Elmhurst). I stayed up past my bedtime ;), and stepped outside every 15 min or so. Totality was about as neat as I’ve seen. Damned cold, tho! > > Wife had her scope set up and binos out. I saw totality through both, and called it a night. She stayed up throughout - said clouds started building near end. I’m by Midway and enough lake effect moisture I guess clouded it up for us. I could see little patches here and there for the first 10 minutes of totality, and then it was a complete blanket of clouds. Never was a complete cloudless patch in those first 10 minutes, though. Just maybe a thinner layer of clouds that you could actually see through. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/49 "2019-01-22T20:26:50Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > The photo I posted previously wasn’t edited at all, straight out of the camera. But in real life it was even redder than that! You could see a lot of sunset shades from oranges to blues and grays in the moon, it was quite spectacular. Yeah, the colours blew my freakin’ mind! It was like looking at another planet. And it was so obviously spherical, rather than looking like a flat, circle in the sky. It was really amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/50 "2019-01-22T20:47:51Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > … And it was so obviously spherical, rather than looking like a flat, circle in the sky. It was really amazing. That was what my wife said repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/51 "2019-01-22T23:47:54Z")
[Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Meteorite Impact](https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-the-moon-was-struck-by-a-meteorite-during-th-1831950105). ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/52 "2019-01-22T23:53:26Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > The photo I posted previously wasn’t edited at all, straight out of the camera. But in real life it was even redder than that! You could see a lot of sunset shades from oranges to blues and grays in the moon, it was quite spectacular. Your photo is close to the colors I saw in real time. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114/53 "2019-01-24T06:01:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That’s about what it’s like here (PNW), only I wouldn’t say as much grey. I’ll go out and look again in a bit. On Victoria Island, I think I might have seen a little red when it went full eclipse, but maybe I was staring too hard and a bit psychosomatic. I didn’t get anywhere near a blood red moon. It was pretty neat when it was about 95% blacked out and the neighbor dogs all started barking [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-tonight-january-20/828114.md?page=2)