Buresh Blog: Severe weather awareness week.... Lunar eclipse

Jan. 16, 2018 — The week of Jan. 14th - "Severe Weather Awareness Week" - topics include lightning, marine hazards, hurricanes, tornadoes, wild fires & flooding.  The idea: get - always have - a plan.

* Lightning

* Marine Hazards

* thunderstorms & tornadoes

* hurricanes & flooding

* temperature extremes & wildfires

Sunday night, Jan. 20th - eye out for a full lunar eclipse which occurs when the sun, earth & moon are aligned casting a shadow by earth onto the moon. While not as spectacular as a solar eclipse, expect a good view - barring any cloud cover - of a "shaded" moon that may also be orange in color hence, the term "blood moon".  This will be a late "show" - beginning shortly after 10:30pm with totality beginning at 11:41pm.  Unlike during a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse does not require any safety glasses.  Just find clear skies & get away from light pollution.

U.S. solar eclipses: (next full one is in April, 2024):

Future night skies from "Sky & Telescope":

20–21 Jan (night): The Moon, approaching perigee, will be eclipsed for all of the Americas, with Europe and most of Africa seeing partial phases on the morning of the 21st.
 
22 Jan (dawn): Venus passes less than 2½° from Jupiter in the early morning hours. Red Antares 8° to their right.
 
23 Jan (dawn): Just before sunrise, Saturn makes its reappearance very low in the southeast. Binoculars will help.
 
30 Jan (dawn): Venus and Jupiter are flanked by the waning crescent Moon and Saturn.
 
Jan. 31 (dawn): The Moon inserts itself between Venus and Jupiter, while Saturn hovers lower in the southeast.
 
1 Feb (dawn): Antares, Jupiter, Venus, the waning crescent Moon, and Saturn form a graceful arc 35° long stretching from the southeast to the south-southeast in the brightening twilight.
 
10 Feb (evening): Look halfway up in the south-southwest to see the waxing crescent Moon located 6° lower left of Mars.
 
Moon Phases
New Moon: 5 Jan, 8:28 p.m. EST
First Quarter: 14 Jan, 1:46 a.m. EST
Full Moon: 21 Jan, 12:16 a.m. EST (Wolf Moon, total lunar eclipse)
Last Quarter: 27 Jan, 4:10 p.m. EST

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