The final Blood Moon 2015 (Dan Kusz)

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The final Blood Moon 2015

I took this photo on Sept 26, 2015 with my Nikon d750 and a Tamron 150-600mm lens at 500mm for 1/5 sec exposure. I really like how I was able to also get some foreground elements into the frame as well giving the image some more depth. Too much rain and snow lately to produce any new images so I thought I would post some of my other images not necessarily deep sky, but astronomy related!

Certain lunar eclipses have been referred to as "blood moons" in popular articles but this is not a scientifically-recognized term. This term has been given two separate, but overlapping, meanings.

The first, and simpler, meaning relates to the reddish colour a totally eclipsed Moon takes on to observers on Earth. As sunlight penetrates the atmosphere of Earth, the gaseous layer filters and refracts the rays in such a way that the green to violet wavelengths on the visible spectrum scatter more strongly than the red, thus giving the Moon a reddish cast. The next one of these blood moons will occur on May 26, 2021

The second meaning of "blood moon" has been derived from this apparent coloration by two fundamentalist Christian pastors, Mark Blitz and John Hagee. They claimed that the 2014–15 "lunar tetrad" of four lunar eclipses coinciding with the feasts of Passover and Tabernacles matched the "moon turning to blood" described in the Book of Joel of the Hebrew Bible. This tetrad was claimed to herald the Second Coming of Christ and the Rapture as described in the Book of Revelation on the date of the first of the eclipses in this sequence on April 15, 2014. The next lunar tetrad will occur in 2032/2033.

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