Super Blue Moon

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...

thanks a lot for that!

eurojam said:

thanks a lot for that!

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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...