Here is what
the website EarthSky has to say about the specialness of the event…A lunar tetrad – four total lunar eclipses in a row – begins
on the night of April 14-15. People are calling it a Blood Moon eclipse.
The first Blood Moon eclipse in
a series of four is coming up on the night of April 14-15, 2014. This total eclipse of
the moon will be visible from the Americas. We in astronomy had not heard the
term Blood Moon used in quite this way before this year, but now the term featured
in a book by John Hagee is becoming widespread in the media. The second
total lunar eclipse of the coming lunar tetrad will take place on October 8,
the same night as the Hunter’s Moon. So there will be two reasons to use the
term Blood Moon that night.
This is information that Steve found more interesting than the White Dog Army but all walked the neighborhood and stood in awe on the deck watching the eclipse turn the moon, indeed, blood red. And the WDA joined several of the other dogs on our block...also out with their humans to view the night sky...in a song of respect to the magic and power of what they witnessed.
Here are a couple of photos taken by our local TV station of the eclipse as seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
4 comments:
We missed it here but it looks quite amazing.
it was too darned overcast here...
That is so cool! It was way too cloudy here as well.
Wow, so pretty. I love that we get up so early in the morning and get to see the moon most days.
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