Total Supermoon Eclipse Tonight

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There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight, the last of the tetrad of them (four of them in the last 17 months). This time, however, it's going to occur when the moon is in a super moon state, that is, it's at its closest to Earth than its other cycles, thus making it appear larger and brighter than it usually is. The last supermoon lunar eclipse occurred in 1982, and the next won't occur until 2033.

If any of you is interested in seeing it, here's a guide of its start and end times, and regions where you can see it:

http://www.space.com/30607-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-time-place-guide.html

Basically, all of North and South America (barring parts of Canada and all of Alaska) and eastern Eurasia and most of Africa can see it.

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It's the end of the world. < I don't buy that shit, by the way.
 
Is it called that because it's red?


I dunno what one looks like, so that's a pure guess.
 
Female Medic said:
Is it called that because it's red?


I dunno what one looks like, so that's a pure guess.
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It's more like a copper color. Brownish. At least that's how Baby Luigi and I saw it last time.
 
I first heard about this by chance a couple weeks ago while looking up solar eclipses - very exciting. Fortunately I don't need to get up until only 6:00 AM tomorrow for a change, so I can actually stay up past 10:00 to see it (I'm in EDT).
 
Maybe we should take pictures while we're at it as a way of "I survived September 2015 lunar eclipse".