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2015-09-27 Super Harvest Blood Moon Total Eclipse
As many of you are aware, last nights total lunar eclipse was a spectacular and extremely rare celestial event. What made last night’s eclipse particularly unique is that it was the combination of a total eclipse (when the moon is completely eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow as it passes between the sun and the moon), a supermoon (the point in it’s orbit when the moon is closest to the Earth resulting in it’s largest apparent size), and a harvest moon (the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox). As news agencies the world over have been reporting, Continue reading