The early forecast calls for partially cloudy skies in the Yakima area Sunday evening, but Allen said it’s still worth watching for the eclipse.
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A supermoon lunar eclipse will take center stage in the sky this weekend marking the first time the spectacle has been seen since 1982.
With the huge supermoon lunar eclipse just one week away, it’s time to dust off your small telescopes and binoculars, track down an observatory event or webcast, or draft your invitations for a moon-cake party.
According to online posts by religious theorists, the supermoon lunar eclipse also lines up with an asteroid apocalypse. “In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth“.
This happens because the moon doesn’t orbit the Earth in a flawless circle – it moves in an ellipse. It’s a new or a full moon that occurs when Earth is at its closest point in orbit, or perigee.
The supermoon lunar eclipse has dazzled people on Earth only five times since 1900, but it’s about to return. It will last for a little over an hour. Once the moon contacts the edge of the umbral shadow it takes about one hour to be fully immersed in the shadow and totality begins.
“The only thing that will happen on Earth during an eclipse is that people will wake up the next morning with neck pain because they spent the night looking up”, he said in a statement. This means that there have basically been blood moons since there’s been a moon to eclipse.
“There’s no physical difference in the moon”, Petro said.
It’s expected to rise already in full eclipse just after 6:30 p.m. slightly above the eastern horizon. That’s red. This eclipse also happens to coincide with the harvest moon, the full moon that falls closest to the autumnal equinox.
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Stargazers will be able to see a shadow on the moon starting at 9:07 p.m.
