Longest Lunar Eclipse of the 21st Century is Today - Fri, July 27 2018

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Today's Longest Lunar Eclipse of the 21st Century -- Fri, July 27 2018

Find yourself some phone wifi or other bigger screen online access anytime after 11:24 am PDT today. For the next HOUR &42 MINUTES, you'll be able to get a live, real-time look at what millions on the far side of the planet are straining their necks to watch overhead. Of course, if you're one of our regular readers in South Africa, all you need to do is look up.

Things today will peak at 12:15 pm Pacific time, but they'll be good for a lengthy interval either side of that -- online, or where the Moon is overhead, either way.

If you're felling like something feels deja vu all over again, hang on. A wide swath of the US, in the rarest-of-rare coast-to-coast stellar shows, oohed and aahed the SOLAR eclipse just about a year ago. That's when global eclipse watchers flocked in droves to America, from the Oregon coast to Wyoming to Nashville to the Carolina coast. That one was a far more rare SOLAR eclipse. This time around the orbital arena, it's the MOON's turn to dazzle. And since this is the longest LUNAR eclipse this century, it's also a big deal.

Actually, any eclipse is more than a sky show. Scientists get the opportunity to use a vast variety of instruments to take advantage of the phenomena -- everything from atmospheric gas diffusion observations to studying lunar features that are normally in harsh light, to measuring how light bends with gravity.

Part of this will be what observers have, for centuries, called a "Blood Moon," because our big natural satellite looks dark red when it gets in the penumbra (partial) part of our planet's shadow, before and after passing through the umbra (total) part of our shadow.

You may recall that we reported on the "Blood Moon" event that was supposed to be a big show over California skies earlier this summer, and it turned out to be, well, a bust. Seems astrophysics can tell you, quire precisely, WHEN something will happen, but atmospherics determine whether you can actually see it, or whether it'll be all that exciting. This time, with online reports and web cams everywhere the eclipse is visible or colorful, it'll be well worth clicking over to www.nasa.gov or www.space.com

We'll also note for you that just a week ago today, July 20th, marked the 49th anniversary of the first time humans walked on the Moon. We have long been advocates of a "National Space Day" every July 20th. But the tightwad capitalists who control everything won't tolerate any more holiday days-off from their sweatshops.

So live in the moment and celebrate the phenomenon a mere quarter million miles away. May we suggest a lunch of cheese (green is optional, though the round ones of any variety, in wax, are really appropriate), with a dessert of Moon Pie? And perhaps a Blue Moon beer -- unless you are watching from, or must go back to, work. Or drive.
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We'll be back again soon with more "News of the Non-Trumpcentric Universe." (c)

Right now, everyone else is off on summer adventures, and your beleaguered editor is in the desert doing his own scientific research -- while dealing with a temperamental computer and a totally broken air conditioner. And the beat goes on.


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