Look For The Moon Sunday Night

If the weather cooperates this Sunday night then you can catch a glimpse of an unusual moon event: there will be a total eclipse of the moon which happens to be the closest supermoon of 2015. That hasn’t happened in 33 years and won’t happen again for another 18 years. It’s the Northern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon, or full moon nearest the September equinox. This full moon is also called a Blood Moon, because it presents the fourth and final eclipse of a lunar tetrad: four straight total eclipses of the moon, spaced at six lunar months (full moons) apart.

Now all we have to do is get our binoculars ready and hope for at a partially clear night for viewing the moon.