A moon coming to within 90 percent of its closest approach or 364,740 Kilometers of earth is super moon according to a 1979 definition.The next one is next week On January 21st. The year 2019 will see 3 more, August 1st and 3oth, and September 28th!
January’s moon a blood moon.
Next weeks moon is to be a blood moon where the shadow of the earth gets on the moon when all lined up with the sun and makes an eclipse.
Farmers Almanac take:
Totality will last a bit longer than average: 1 hour and 2 minutes. The eclipse will actually begin when the Moon enters the faint outer portion (called the penumbra) of the Earth’s shadow about an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint “smudge” on the left part of the Moon’s disk about a half hour after it first enters the penumbral shadow.
Source Farmers Almanac, Joe Rao
On this Day: January 16th 1964
Hello Dolly opens on Broadway to begin a run to nearly 3000 performances.
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