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2015 Super Blood Moon

Started by September 28, 2015 01:36 AM
16 comments, last by HappyCoder 9 years, 4 months ago


Weren't there some people predicting that this is the end of the world sign (not that there's anything new about people predicting this).

Yes, but I think fewer than the people who did the same at the Mayan calendar event.

(At the Mayan event we had two barbecues at work: an "end of the world" BBQ the night before, and a "we survived" BBQ the night after.)

I think every eclipse, both lunar and solar, are claimed to be the end of the world by various groups.

Here's my best photo of the night:

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Dude, dat pic is wonderful

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Here's my best photo of the night:

Here's one I took. It's interesting that we seem to have captured different stars, where did you take your image? (Mine's from Sweden)

Fun to try and calculate the angle and see if I can identify the stars at the edge of my image (this is cropped, didn't have enough zoom to fill the frame). Can see how the stars move between some of my images relative to the moon, but not that far.

EDIT: Actually think I solved the mystery, seems the 3 stars just to the right of the moon on your image are the same that are just to the left of the moon in mine.. our images are rotated like 60 degrees relative to each other. Reminds me of when I went to Dubai and saw for the first time that the crescent moon was horizontal there instead of standing vertical on the side as it looks here, though I don't know if in this case it's because of camera rotation or actual relative rotation of the moon from where we snapped our images.

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I tried to take a picture tonight. Looked cool. Sadly it failed to capture the majesty.

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Weren't there some people predicting that this is the end of the world sign (not that there's anything new about people predicting this).

Yes, but I think fewer than the people who did the same at the Mayan calendar event.

(At the Mayan event we had two barbecues at work: an "end of the world" BBQ the night before, and a "we survived" BBQ the night after.)

I think every eclipse, both lunar and solar, are claimed to be the end of the world by various groups.

Oh true very true. I don't know why this one stuck in my mind.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Oh true very true. I don't know why this one stuck in my mind.

I think alot of people were calling it a "sign" that the end times are getting near, rather than the Mayan one where it gave a definitive date of the end. Maybe they (half-way) learned?

A british preacher named David Pawson joked that of all the people throughout the years predicting the end of the world, the smartest were those who picked dates far enough out that they wouldn't be around when the date arrived. laugh.png

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EDIT: Actually think I solved the mystery, seems the 3 stars just to the right of the moon on your image are the same that are just to the left of the moon in mine.. our images are rotated like 60 degrees relative to each other. Reminds me of when I went to Dubai and saw for the first time that the crescent moon was horizontal there instead of standing vertical on the side as it looks here, though I don't know if in this case it's because of camera rotation or actual relative rotation of the moon from where we snapped our images.

I'm on the mid atlantic eastern seaboard of the US, and probably some simple geometry will give us the answer ;) But yes, it looks like the whole thing, moon included, is rotated.

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Here is what I took. I had to stitch it from four separate shots

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_J19zEkvD7-WkxXbmswbXd6a2s

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