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Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

  • Posted by OCastronomy
  • On January 13, 2018
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Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse

Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse
Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse will be the first of two Blue Moons in 2018 and the second of two full moons in the January 2018 calendar month. So it’s not just a Total Lunar Eclipse, or just a Blue Moon, or a Supermoon. It is in fact all three a “Super Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse! This amazing celestial event will occur on January 31, 2018, Totality will last a bit more than one-and-a-quarter hours. It is the America’s first Blue Moon total eclipse in 150 years. The January 31 full moon is also the third in a series of three straight full moon supermoons – which is, a super-close full moon.

 

IMPORTANT. If you live in North America or the Hawaiian Islands, this lunar eclipse will be visible in your sky before sunrise on January 31.

                   Total eclipse of the Moon
                         Delta T:  69.0s

                       ORANGE, CALIFORNIA
                            o  '    o  '
                         W117 50, N33 48

                      Pacific Standard Time

                                                      Moon's
                                                Azimuth   Altitude
                                     h  m            o        o
Moonrise               2018 Jan 30  16:43          67.9     ----
Moon enters penumbra   2018 Jan 31  02:49.8       257.7     47.6
Moon enters umbra      2018 Jan 31  03:48.1       266.8     35.9
Moon enters totality   2018 Jan 31  04:51.4       275.1     23.2
Middle of eclipse      2018 Jan 31  05:29.9       279.8     15.5
Moon leaves totality   2018 Jan 31  06:08.3       284.5      8.0
Moonset                2018 Jan 31  06:54         290.3     ----

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