# Super Blood Moon eclipse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543 "2015-09-26T05:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/1 "2015-09-26T05:34:32Z")
This Sunday evening, and that’s what they’re calling it, it sounds like a combination of a Black Sabbeth and Pink Floyd song. I’m not going to link, because depending upon your location it will be different. Here in Ottawa it will be a total black out. I’ll be watching it from my rural back yard. Got my binoculars set up! Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/2 "2015-09-26T19:45:59Z")
Looking forward to this event … will be watching from Ellsworth, Maine 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/3 "2015-09-26T20:23:21Z")
[Earthsky.org cool link.](http://earthsky.org/?p=51212#north) times for viewing in different North American time zones. I’ll be driving home from the airport. ETA: good news though; I have my iPod with me so I can listen to Battleship Band’s bagpipes and vocal cover of _Bad Moon Rising_. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/4 "2015-09-26T20:25:53Z")
Finally, an astronomy event that is actually happening. (I’m looking at you, people who think the moon will look as big as Mars every year!) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/5 "2015-09-26T21:20:11Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Finally, an astronomy event that is actually happening. > (I’m looking at you, people who think the moon will look as big as Mars every year!) \*\*\*I’d \*\*\*pay to see the Moon look as big as Mars! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/6 "2015-09-26T21:30:47Z")
The dirty little secret of astronomy. Rare or even once in a lifetime events occur all the fracking time. But that’s because there are so many possible types of events. Its like pointing out an interesting series of chess moves or combinations of cards drawn from a deck. The ones that the general public can see, understand, and actually be impressed by occur IMO about every 5 years give or take. And those often require you to be in the right place at the right time AND have the weather AND your life schedule cooperating as well. My WAG is the average Joe public see’s only a handful “wow, that was neat as shit and I’ll never forget it” astronomy things in his or her lifetime. And that’s with them trying to see these things. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/7 "2015-09-26T21:53:40Z")
“Supermoon” actually isn’t that annoying of a term. Once I noticed the Moon on the horizon looked extra big and indeed it was a supermoon. It really is noticeable, contrary to what Astrobloggers would lead you to believe. OTOH, “Blood Moon” is awful, awful, awful. Just say “total lunar eclipse”. (Note that the “bloodness” of a given eclipse is not all that predictable far in advance. Weather and dust in the atmosphere make the redness vary quite a bit.) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/8 "2015-09-26T22:22:48Z")
I’ll be watching in Northeast Ohio. I always watch every eclipse or meteor shower I can. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/9 "2015-09-26T22:30:04Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > (I’m looking at you, people who think the moon will look as big as Mars every year!) Strike that. Reverse it. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/10 "2015-09-26T22:34:23Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > “Supermoon” actually isn’t that annoying of a term. Once I noticed the Moon on the horizon looked extra big and indeed it was a supermoon. It really is noticeable, contrary to what Astrobloggers would lead you to believe. > .) Well, yes and no. The moon appears larger on the horizon. But it is only an illusion. Constellations “do” the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/11 "2015-09-27T03:51:49Z")
Starts pretty early out west. Hell, I might even still be sober! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/12 "2015-09-27T11:40:39Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > OTOH, “Blood Moon” is awful, awful, awful. Eh, [Blood Moons](http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Blood_moon) aren’t so bad. Just load up on minishark ammo, drink a few Battle Potions, and go nuts. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/13 "2015-09-27T13:06:13Z")
Two lakeside parks in Chicago are staying open until midnight just so geeks like me and my friends won’t get in trouble when we’re hanging out on the beach tonight. Same group of friends who drove an hour outside the city in August - from midnight til dawn - to watch the pinnacle of the Perseid meteor shower. Hoping the cloud cover cooperates, supposed to thin out later but pretty overcast right now. If it dwindles to just the thin high cirrus cover like last night, we’ll be OK with that. Much thicker and there won’t be much, if anything, to see. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/14 "2015-09-27T13:35:46Z")
I’m in northern California. If I understand correctly, it should be from 7:00 to 8:00 pm for me, is that right? There are so many trees here at my house, it’s hard to get a good look at the sky without being in rattlesnake territory, so I may have to plan to be elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/15 "2015-09-27T14:10:27Z")
Alas, we’re supposed to have increasing clouds tonight. Plus I have to get up at 5 in the morning, so staying up to catch totality at 10:30 or so won’t work. And it’s not like I’ve never seen a blood moon before. A number of years ago (20, more or less) there was a total eclipse that we watched with our daughter’s telescope. We lived in a fairly dark area, so it made for good viewing. I thought the deep red-brown color was especially impressive. My mom’s on a cruise and they’ll be transiting at sea overnight - I hope they tell the passengers about the eclipse and dim some of the deck lights. That would be very cool! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/16 "2015-09-27T14:23:46Z")
Cloudy in Chicago today and tonight. :mad: Grumble. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/17 "2015-09-27T16:56:49Z")
And in Jacksonville, FL. And I can go to my mom’s oceanfront condo to see it rise over the ocean. Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/18 "2015-09-27T18:48:58Z")
We arranged a camping trip specifically for this event. I am sitting by the campfire at a site on Lake George. The skies are clear and should stay that way for the eclipse. There is also a pretty awesome music fest going on here, so we’re sitting here listening to the music. Last night, to our surprise, they set off a huge fireworks show. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/19 "2015-09-27T18:53:16Z")
Don’t go around tonight, For it’s bound to take your life. There’s a blood moon on the rise. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543/20 "2015-09-28T00:44:46Z")
I want to go to bed, but I’ll stay up until the eclipse is full. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-blood-moon-eclipse/732543.md?page=2)