Lunar Eclipse

[joeallonby]

on 10/27/04 3:10 PM, monroe at mpm.edu at monroe at mpm.edu wrote:

> According to folklore, October's full moon is called the "Hunter's Moon" or
> sometimes the "Blood Moon." It gets its name from hunters who tracked and
> killed their prey by autumn moonlight, stockpiling food for the winter
> ahead. You can picture them: silent figures padding through the forest, the
> moon overhead, pale as a corpse, its cold light betraying the creatures of
> the wood. 
> 
> The Blood Moon rises this year on Wednesday, Oct. 27th. At first it will
> seem pale and cold, as usual. And then ... blood red.
> 
> It's a lunar eclipse. Beginning at 9:14 p.m. EDT (6:14 p.m. PDT), the moon
> will glide through Earth's shadow for more than three hours. Observers on
> every continent (map) except Australia can see the event: The pale-white
> moon will turn pumpkin orange as it plunges into shadow, becoming eerie red
> during totality....
> 
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/13oct_lunareclipse.htm
> 
More evidence of the impending end of the world. A blood red moon winks out
over St Louis.