Johan Schoeman Expert Licensed User Longtime User Jan 20, 2018 #1 Read this http://earthsky.org/?p=270280 ".....The Blue Moon – second of two full moons in one calendar month – will pass through the Earth’s shadow on January 31, 2018, to give us a total lunar eclipse. Totality, when the moon will be entirely inside the Earth’s dark umbral shadow, will last a bit more than one-and-a-quarter hours. The January 31 full moon is also the third in a series of three straight full moon supermoons – that is, super-close full moons. It’s the first of two Blue Moons in 2018. So it’s not just a lunar eclipse, or a Blue Moon, or a supermoon. It’s all three … a super Blue Moon eclipse!....." Very interesting... Last edited: Jan 20, 2018
Read this http://earthsky.org/?p=270280 ".....The Blue Moon – second of two full moons in one calendar month – will pass through the Earth’s shadow on January 31, 2018, to give us a total lunar eclipse. Totality, when the moon will be entirely inside the Earth’s dark umbral shadow, will last a bit more than one-and-a-quarter hours. The January 31 full moon is also the third in a series of three straight full moon supermoons – that is, super-close full moons. It’s the first of two Blue Moons in 2018. So it’s not just a lunar eclipse, or a Blue Moon, or a supermoon. It’s all three … a super Blue Moon eclipse!....." Very interesting...
Johan Schoeman Expert Licensed User Longtime User Jan 20, 2018 #3 eurojam said: thanks a lot for that! Click to expand... I have a Celestron telescope (Schmidt-Cassegrain) that I have not used in many years. Perhaps time to take it out again and watch what is going on in the night sky. I have seen: 1. Mars 2. Venus (as evening star and morning star) 3. Jupiter (and some of its moons) 4. Saturn (and its rings) 5. Obviously - earths own moon 6. The Sun and its "Sun" spots (I have a filter that I can use to look at the sun) 7. and many other night sky "objects" Seeing Saturn and the spots on the sun really beats everything else that I have seen... Last edited: Jan 20, 2018
eurojam said: thanks a lot for that! Click to expand... I have a Celestron telescope (Schmidt-Cassegrain) that I have not used in many years. Perhaps time to take it out again and watch what is going on in the night sky. I have seen: 1. Mars 2. Venus (as evening star and morning star) 3. Jupiter (and some of its moons) 4. Saturn (and its rings) 5. Obviously - earths own moon 6. The Sun and its "Sun" spots (I have a filter that I can use to look at the sun) 7. and many other night sky "objects" Seeing Saturn and the spots on the sun really beats everything else that I have seen...
