Tonight's 'Super Blue Moon'

[Tom Paine 1949]

Quick, don’t miss it! All genuine “lunatics” rejoice! Werewolfs too!

The moon has been much in the news this August. For most of the month, uncrewed spacecraft from Russia and India were in a hot cosmic race to see which country would earn the bragging rights of being the first to safely land a ship in the moon’s south polar region. On Aug. 20, Russia’s plans came to ruin, after an engine burn intended to fine-tune the ship’s descent went awry. Three days later, India—very much a newbie in the moon game—successfully stuck its landing, earning this year’s top honors for lunar exploration.


But the moon hardly needs human intervention to make cosmic headlines. Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…

How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Moon

When a full moon draws close to Earth, lovely things happen.

time.com

 

[ReinyDays]

Quick, don’t miss it! All genuine “lunatics” rejoice! Werewolfs too!

The moon has been much in the news this August. For most of the month, uncrewed spacecraft from Russia and India were in a hot cosmic race to see which country would earn the bragging rights of being the first to safely land a ship in the moon’s south polar region. On Aug. 20, Russia’s plans came to ruin, after an engine burn intended to fine-tune the ship’s descent went awry. Three days later, India—very much a newbie in the moon game—successfully stuck its landing, earning this year’s top honors for lunar exploration.


But the moon hardly needs human intervention to make cosmic headlines. Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…

How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Moon

When a full moon draws close to Earth, lovely things happen.

time.com

We'll see if these high tides cause any flooding ... this is what Climate Change Hystericals are prophetizing ...

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies…

Sundroid is calling moonrise at 19:55 for me.

It probably varies by latitude.

Mobile Observatory Pro is calling it 19:59.
SunTractory.net seems to be trying to place it around 19:30.

 

[1srelluc]

And.....It's mostly cloudy, all I see is a bright ball behind the clouds.....Par for the course though, my area must be a astronomical viewing oddity. It's always cloudy when something cool happens.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Taken less than an hour ago, using my ancient (c. late 1960s-early 1970s) Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Tele-Zoom lens, mounted on my 2013 Nikon D3200. 500²-pixel section of the image, upscaled and enhanced to 2048² pixels using Topaz Photo AI. 1⁄200 of a second, ISO 400. I'm not certain of the aperture setting, but it was very likely ƒ/16.

 

[Likkmee]

Mine is still round and white.....but the hair is all gray so it's not as ugly as it was

 

[luiza]

Could not see any blue here in SE Merry England but it was a very special view Impressive .

 

[ActionJackson]

Here in southern Utah, the moon is completely full and easily visible from my home, currently (1:10 A.M. Mountain Time). As for coloration, it's no different from usual (at least from my vantage point). Nothing blue about it (unless that adjective is describing something other than color). I'm not an astronomy enthusiast, so I'm ignorant about such things.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Could not see any blue here in SE Merry England but it was a very special view Impressive .

Here in southern Utah, the moon is completely full and easily visible from my home, currently (1:10 A.M. Mountain Time). As for coloration, it's no different from usual (at least from my vantage point). Nothing blue about it (unless that adjective is describing something other than color). I'm not an astronomy enthusiast, so I'm ignorant about such things.

The term “blue moon” means the second full moon in a calendar month. Nothing at all to do with any color.

 

[ActionJackson]

The term “blue moon” means the second full moon in a calendar month. Nothing at all to do with any color.

I figured there had to be more to the story.

 

[frigidweirdo]

We'll see if these high tides cause any flooding ... this is what Climate Change Hystericals are prophetizing ...

Hardly much to prophetize, I mean "flooding" happens all the time.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Quick, don’t miss it! All genuine “lunatics” rejoice! Werewolfs too!

The moon has been much in the news this August. For most of the month, uncrewed spacecraft from Russia and India were in a hot cosmic race to see which country would earn the bragging rights of being the first to safely land a ship in the moon’s south polar region. On Aug. 20, Russia’s plans came to ruin, after an engine burn intended to fine-tune the ship’s descent went awry. Three days later, India—very much a newbie in the moon game—successfully stuck its landing, earning this year’s top honors for lunar exploration.


But the moon hardly needs human intervention to make cosmic headlines. Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…

How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Moon

When a full moon draws close to Earth, lovely things happen.

time.com

It's yuge!

It came up through the clouds tonight its spectacular

I got in about 3 am after my 2 beers a week ....I'm ahead about a month tonight ...shit

It's still out there

It shawizzzz purdy

 

[luiza]

The term “blue moon” means the second full moon in a calendar month. Nothing at all to do with any color.

Thanks , I knew. But it is like saying that Ella does not mean Blue when she sings Blue Moon . And that must not be right .

 

[ReinyDays]

The term “blue moon” means the second full moon in a calendar month. Nothing at all to do with any color.

This happens 7 times every 19 years ... "Black moons" are indeed black ... this is the second New Moon in any given month ... or the more archaic definition of fourth in a season ...

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

This is not just a “blue moon” = 2nd full moon of the month.

It is also a “super moon,” hence ”super blue moon.”


A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that nearly coincides with perigee — the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit — resulting in a … larger-than-usual apparent size of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The technical name is a perigee syzygy (of the Earth–Moon–Sun system) or a full (or new) Moon around perigee. — Wikipedia

 

[Likkmee]

The term “blue moon” means the second full moon in a calendar month. Nothing at all to do with any color.

 

[badger2]

Could not see any blue here in SE Merry England but it was a very special view Impressive .

Didn't appear blue from Wisconsin.

 

[toobfreak]

Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…

Do you even know what it really is? In reality, to the average, untrained person, it will look exactly like the Moon does any other time. Far better to just wait until a moon at full libration--- at least then you will actually see new features you usually don't see.

 

[badger2]

Could not see any blue here in SE Merry England but it was a very special view Impressive .

Badger's biological DNA (Reynolds) supposedly links to Plympton in Devon.

 

[miketx]

Quick, don’t miss it! All genuine “lunatics” rejoice! Werewolfs too!

The moon has been much in the news this August. For most of the month, uncrewed spacecraft from Russia and India were in a hot cosmic race to see which country would earn the bragging rights of being the first to safely land a ship in the moon’s south polar region. On Aug. 20, Russia’s plans came to ruin, after an engine burn intended to fine-tune the ship’s descent went awry. Three days later, India—very much a newbie in the moon game—successfully stuck its landing, earning this year’s top honors for lunar exploration.


But the moon hardly needs human intervention to make cosmic headlines. Tonight (Aug. 30) at shortly after 8:30 p.m. eastern time, through the morning of Sept. 1, a rare “super blue moon” will rise in the skies, creating a spectacle that thrills photographers, amateur sky watchers and even seasoned astronomers…

How to Watch Tonight's Super Blue Moon

When a full moon draws close to Earth, lovely things happen.

time.com