Get Ready for the Supermoon Eclipse

We've been hearing about this 'supermoon eclipse' - a supermoon PLUS a total lunar eclipse - all happening this weekend, so get those telescopes ready for this rare double feature event...

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‘Blood Moon’: Total lunar eclipse over US (NASA STREAM)

In a brief total eclipse best visible from the western part of the United States, the moon passed through the Earth’s shadow and turned blood-red in the early hours of the morning on Saturday...

It will be the third in a series of four total lunar eclipses, or a “tetrad,” that began in mid-April last year. The second occurred in October 2014, and the last will be on September 28 this year. Tetrads are very rare: only seven more are expected by the year 2100. - rt

 

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