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Hunter's moon, the first full moon after the harvest moon; Xquic, a mythological Mayan heroine sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon" or "Blood Girl/Maiden" in English; Blood Moon (eclipse), a popular term to describe the reddish color of the moon during the total lunar eclipse
The blood moon prophecies were a series of prophecies by Christian preachers John Hagee and Mark Biltz, related to a series of four full moons in 2014 and 2015.The prophecies stated that a tetrad (a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses—all total and coinciding on Jewish holidays—with six full moons in between, and no intervening partial lunar eclipses) which began with the April 2014 ...
When the moon is within the darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, it takes on a reddish hue, which has led to the nickname “blood moon” for a lunar eclipse, according to NASA.
Well, the red color is actually not unlike a sunset, but from the moon's perspective. ... "To have a blood moon, and then for those blood moons to be on this exact date, is something that just is ...
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow partially blocks the sun’s light from reaching the moon, giving it a reddish appearance often referred to as a blood moon. On Tuesday night, in ...
Because the Moon was near its perigee on January 21, it can be described as a "supermoon". [3] As this supermoon was also a wolf moon (the first full moon in a calendar year), it was referred to as a "super blood wolf moon"; blood refers to the typical red color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. [4]
A total lunar eclipse, or blood moon, will happen overnight on July 27. The eclipse will be colored orange-red due to sunlight passing through Earth 's atmosphere and bouncing off the moon.
The full moon of January 31, 2018 was the second full moon that calendar month (in most time zones), making it, under one definition of the term, a "blue moon". Additionally referencing the orange or red "blood" colors that occur during a lunar eclipse, media sources described the event as a "super blue blood Moon". [9]