Super Blue Blood Moon

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Super Blue Blood Moon 2018:



 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 umbra 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 super moons – that is, super-close full moons. It’s the first of two Blue Moons in 2018. So it’s not just a total lunar eclipse, or a Blue Moon, or a supermoon. It’s all three … a super Blue Moon total eclipse!

Two Definitions of Blue Moon

  1. Seasonal Blue Moon = The third Full Moon in an astronomical season with four Full Moons (versus the usual three).
  2. Monthly Blue Moon = The second Full Moon in a month with two Full Moons. 

     

    why is called blue or red moon?

    Blue Sky and Red Sunset

    A similar phenomenon is Rayleigh scattering, which occurs when light strikes a molecule of air. This scattering causes the sky to look blue in the daytime and red at sunrise and sunset.
    Same phenomenon is with the the moon due to the reflection of light the moon color look change as red or blue.
     The Full Moon can look red if other sizes of dust particles fill the atmosphere or during Total Lunar Eclipses, which are much more common than Moons that look blue.

    Why is called the super moon?

    The Rarest Blue Moon

    A Moon that actually looks blue, however, is a very rare sight. The Moon, full or any other phase, can appear blue when the atmosphere is filled with dust or smoke particles of a certain size; slightly wider than 0.7 micron. The particles scatter the red light, making the Moon appear blue. This is known as Mie scattering, and can happen for instance after a dust storm, a forest fire, or a volcanic eruption.

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