A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Election Day

[RandySF]

Hours before citizens across the country cast their votes in a contentious midterm election, a sinister red moon will loom in the sky. The last total lunar eclipse of 2022 is set to stain the moon red during the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Residents across both coasts will be able to watch the spectacle for just under 90 minutes.

Total lunar eclipses, commonly known as “blood moons,” only happen during full moons when the Earth completely shields the moon from the sun. Once the sun, earth and the moon are exactly aligned, light from simultaneous sunrises and sunsets around the earth project onto the moon, briefly causing a coppery-red coat on the moon’s surface. The more dust or clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere during the eclipse, the redder the moon will appear, according to NASA.

From the moon, the total lunar eclipse would shine a bright red aura around the Earth’s dark surface.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/11/04/total-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon/

[gratuitous]

1. There we go

That'll be the Republican excuse for their losses on Election Day. Gotta work better than admitting you don't have a platform or a plan to govern, and certainly better than the Republican record of the last six years.

[liberal_mama]

2. Geez, that seems like a bad sign to me

Very creepy. I'm always scared when I see a blood red moon ever since I saw that movie The Seventh Sign.

[jcgoldie]

3. The last line you quoted made me think of...

[FakeNoose]

4. In Pittsburgh, we'll see the full eclipse at 5:30 a.m.

(link) https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-november-8

Around that time of the morning we're usually cloudy. The moon will be near the horizon and I'm on the east-facing slope of a hill. I don't think I'll get to see much, but I'll try to get up extra-early anyway.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Well, That Guarantees Cloudy Skies Here

In the last 10 or so years, every time some cool astronomical event occurred it clouded over a for a few days.
The only exception was a few weeks ago when Jupiter came it's closest to earth for another century.
Other than that, pffffttt!

[scarletlib]

6. The moon is also a Beaver moon. Make of it what you will.

[betsuni]

8. A menstruating Beaver moon.

Cannot decide whether it's a good or bad sign.

[Chainfire]

7. There's a bad moon on the rise....

Don't go out tonight or its bound to take your life....

[tavernier]

9. There's a bathroom on the right.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Blood moon means Satan will devour all MAGAts daring to come out from dawn to dusk.

On a more serious note, I just saw my first horizontal meteor. Took the dogs out for a walk in the moonlight, stopped while they were nosing around, looked up while facing north to check for stars or cloud cover, and a bright light went streaking east to west. I had time to think, "That's too fast for an aircraft. WTH?" It brightened and went out and then it dawned on me that it was a meteor. I've only ever seen them descending through the air, never horizonal before. No frame of reference for size or distance, but my impression was small and near.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

11. Hail Satan!

Somebody had to say it

Critter Christmas

[Cha]

12. Here's Hoping this Lunar Eclipse

of the Blood Red Moon Will Be Beneficial For Saving Our Democxacy!!

[mitch96]

13. I had a late walk this evening and the moon with jupiter just above it was pretty striking

I should be a beauty with the blood moon and Jupiter next to it.. Get out the cameras!!
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