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<ul class="summary-list"><li>This year's full harvest moon is also a supermoon, and it's rising early Tuesday evening.</li><li>There will also be the last partial lunar eclipse of the year later, Tuesday evening. </li></ul><p>There are a couple of reasons to check out the upcoming <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/full-moon-names-meaning-origin-lunar-calendar-2023">harvest moon</a>. First, it's a supermoon, meaning it will appear slightly bigger and brighter in the night sky than a typical full moon.</p><p>Second, it coincides with the last <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/see-strawberry-moon-partial-lunar-eclipse-friday-2020-6">partial lunar eclipse</a> of the year. So, depending on your location, you'll be able to see Earth's shadow sweep across a small part of the harvest moon when it rises Tuesday evening.</p><h2 id="b9f7bcc6-7b06-48e3-a8b1-8f8194454618"><strong>The best time to watch the super harvest moon and partial lunar eclipse</strong></h2><p>The <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/september-harvest-moon-last-supermoon-when-best-time-to-see-2023-9">harvest moon is the full moon</a> that occurs nearest to the first day of autumn. It typically rises in the early evening around sunset, which meant farmers could finish harvesting their fall crops by its bright moonlight, hence the name.</p><p>This year, the harvest moon will officially be at its fullest on September 17 at 10:35 p.m. ET, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/the-next-full-moon-is-a-partial-lunar-eclipse-a-supermoon-the-corn-moon-and-the-harvest-moon/">NASA</a>. But the harvest moon will appear full for about three days from Monday evening through Thursday morning, NASA adds. </p><p>The best time to catch any full moon, including the harvest moon, is <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/super-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-photos-2021-5#countries-in-the-asian-pacific-rim-including-china-and-indonesia-saw-the-eclipse-just-after-moonrise-2">right around moonrise</a>. </p><div type="image" title="harvest moon" height="1648" width="2200" msid="113372044" hostid="261" sizebytes="69298"></div><p>That's because the moon looks larger and adopts a yellow-orangish hue when it's close to the horizon. No one knows why this illusion occurs, <a target="_blank" href="https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/">according to NASA</a>, but it makes for some spectacular moon gazing and photos.</p><p>The moon will rise over the east horizon around 7 p.m. local time on Tuesday for most of the contiguous US, but check <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/">TimeandDate</a> for exactly when moonrise is in your area. Here's when the full harvest moon will rise Tuesday in the five largest US cities:</p><table style="minWidth: 50px"></colgroup></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>City</td><td>Moonrise (local time)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">New York City</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">6:58 p.m.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Los Angeles</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">6:55 p.m.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Chicago</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">6:54 p.m.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Houston</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">7:20 p.m.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Phoenix</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">6:30 p.m.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Also happening Tuesday evening is a partial lunar eclipse. The eclipse will start at 8:41 p.m. ET, according to NASA, but you likely won't see anything happen until closer to the eclipse's peak at 10:44 p.m. ET, when the maximum area of the moon's surface will be in shadow.</p><p>A partial lunar eclipse is when <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-lunar-eclipses-work-earth-moon-red-shadow-2018-7">Earth passes between the sun and moon</a>, casting its shadow across a certain percentage of the lunar surface. The more the Earth, sun, and moon are aligned, the greater portion of the moon the Earth eclipses.</p><div type="image" title="A lunar eclipse with a statue in front" height="683" width="1024" msid="113372045" hostid="261" sizebytes="15568"></div><p>For this particular eclipse, about 8.4% of the moon will be immersed in shadow, per NASA. So, at the time of the eclipse's peak, you should be able to notice that a small sliver looks like it's missing from the top of the moon.</p><p>"The only impact the eclipse has on seeing the moon is that part of the moon will be dimmer than the part that is outside of the shadow of the Earth," <span>Noah Petro, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told BI over email.</span></p><p>Tuesday's partial eclipse is the last lunar eclipse of the year. The next lunar eclipse will be a total eclipse on March 14, 2025.</p><p>Just about everyone worldwide can enjoy the upcoming supermoon but only regions of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa will have a chance to see the lunar eclipse. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2024-september-18">TimeandDate</a> has a map showing which portions of the globe will get the best eclipse show.</p><h2 id="4678bbea-bf93-41a2-9445-1b83e47703af">The harvest moon is the second supermoon of 2024</h2><div type="image" title="red harvest moon rising over eastern horizon with a city in front of it" height="681" width="1024" msid="113372043" hostid="261" sizebytes="13854"></div><p>This year's harvest moon is the second in a series of four consecutive supermoons, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-a-supermoon/">EarthSky.</a></p><p>Supermoons occur when a full (or new) moon coincides with perigee — the point in the moon's orbit when it's closest to Earth.</p><p>But that distance isn't always the same value because the moon's orbit is elliptical, not perfectly circular. Therefore, supermoons vary in how much larger and brighter they may look.</p><p>In general, though, supermoons appear about 7% larger and 15% brighter than a typical full moon, Larry Wasserman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, told Business Insider via email.</p><div type="image" title="supermoon rises over a city at night" height="682" width="1024" msid="113372048" hostid="261" sizebytes="45990"></div><p>This year's harvest moon will be about 222,131 miles from Earth at perigee. To compare, the closest supermoon so far this century, in November 2016, was at a distance of 221,524 miles, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://earthsky.org/sky-archive/closest-supermoon-since-1948/">EarthSky</a>.</p><p>The next two full moons, on October 17 and November 15, will also be supermoons. In particular, October's full moon — called the Hunter's moon — will be the largest supermoon of the year.</p>

The 2024 harvest moon is the 2nd supermoon and last lunar eclipse this year. Here's the best time to see it when it rises Tuesday.

Badrinath (Uttarakhand) [India], November 8 (ANI): In view of the <keyword id="12567561" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="total-lunar-eclipse" source="Orion">total lunar eclipse</keyword> (Chandra Grahan), the doors of <keyword id="642949" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="badrinath-temple" source="Orion">Badrinath Temple</keyword> were closed earlier today and would remain so till late evening.<br /><br /> "Badrinath Dham Temple closed for the lunar eclipse. The temple will re-open at 6:25 pm after the eclipse", Ajendra Ajay, Chairman of the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee told ANI.<br /><br /> Due to the Lunar Eclipse, temples across India have been closed since morning and would remain closed till 6:30 pm in the evening. Temples have announced that after performing the <keyword id="6290100" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="sandhya-aarti" source="Orion">Sandhya Aarti</keyword> and other rituals for purification, the temples would be opened to the public.<br /><br /> A Lunar eclipse happens when the Sun, Earth, and a Full Moon form a near-perfect Syzygy in space. The Moon slides into the Earth's shadow and gradually darkens until the entire lunar disc turns into an eerie red or dim orange from its usual silvery grey shade. The event unfolds in reverse order further, until the moon returns to its full brilliance.<br /><br /> The <keyword id="15461656" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="november-8th-lunar-eclipse" source="Orion">November 8th lunar eclipse</keyword> is the last lunar eclipse of the year and the second total lunar eclipse in the year 2022, the earlier was on May 15-16th. Today's eclipse would be visible across India along with parts of Asia, North America, Australia, and a few places in Europe as well as in the entire North America. The next Lunar eclipse is predicted to be on the 5th of May, 2023.<br /><br /> Every year, from anywhere between four to seven times, the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up in a Syzygy, forming what is called either the Solar or Lunar Eclipse. (ANI)<br /><br />

Badrinath Temple closed for years' last total lunar eclipse

On the evening of November 8, as the <keyword id="6359982" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="earth" source="Orion">Earth</keyword>'s shadow envelopes its sole satellite for nearly one-and-half hours, the world will witness a thrilling and chilling spectacle of a '<keyword id="2198098" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="blood-moon" source="Orion">Blood Moon</keyword>' <keyword id="90051" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="lunar-eclipse" source="Orion">lunar eclipse</keyword>, a prominent astronomer said here on Monday.<br /><br />Coming exactly 14 days (two Tuesdays) after the October 25 partial solar eclipse -- the lunar eclipse will be seen in totality in the northeastern states, but shall be only partially visible in the rest of <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> in the evening as the <keyword id="24879" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sun" source="Orion">sun</keyword> sets, said Prof. Bharat Adur, Director, Akash Ganga Centre for Astronomy (AGCA) here.<br /><br />"Tomorrow, the Earth's looming shadow will cover the <keyword id="42440" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="moon" source="Orion">Moon</keyword> and during this period it will appear a dark reddish colour, almost like a large drop of blood balanced in the sky... This phenomenon is called a 'Blood Moon' and it's an exciting spectacle," said Prof. Adur.<br /><br />He urged the people to view it wherever possible, as this will be the last total lunar eclipse, and the next one (total lunar eclipse) due only after three years on September 7, 2025.<br /><br />The Earth will come between the Sun and Moon and the blue planet's monstrous shadow -- from a staggering distance of 3.93 lakh kms -- will shroud its small natural satellite, partially or fully, depending on the angle of alignment from where it is viewed, Prof. Adur explained.<br /><br />The Sun is around 109 times bigger than Earth and over 148-million kms away, while the Earth is nearly four times larger than the Moon, with an average distance of 3,85 lakh kms separating them.<br /><br />"In a total lunar eclipse, the Moon is entirely blanketed by the Earth's darkest shadow, called the 'umbra', and at this time, the Moon appears a dark-reddish colour, or what is called the 'Blood Moon' phenomenon," Prof. Adur said.<br /><br />In scientific terms, it's called the 'Rayleigh Scattering' as during a lunar eclipse the only sunlight that reaches the Moon passes through the Earth's atmosphere, thus turning the Moon an apparent reddish colour.<br /><br />This is the second celestial event since the last partial Solar Eclipse (October 25), and can be witnessed by people in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, parts of Asia, Russia, North and South Americas, Australia, North Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean regions.<br /><br />Despite the scary myths or deep religious aspects associated with any eclipse (solar/lunar), Prof. Adur assured that there is absolutely no harm in viewing the unusual 'Blood Moon' on Tuesday with naked eyes or with binoculars which will enhance the reddish colour.<br /><br />The northeastern parts of India like Kohima, Agartala, Guwahati and other regions in the world will witness it in totality on Tuesday, the final eclipse of 2022.<br /><br />As the Moon will be below the horizon during the eclipse hours, most other parts of India will miss the exciting starting phases of both the partial and total eclipse, he said.<br /><br />Kolkata, New Delhi, Chennai along with Mumbai, can witness only the partial phase, and in the country's commercial capital barely 14 per cent of the Moon's obscuration can be viewed at 18.03 hours in the setting sun.<br /><br />However, the Moon will be seen 60 per cent covered in Nagpur, 66 per cent in Srinagar and in varying degrees in other cities, said Prof. Adur.<br /><br />In case people miss the 'Blood Moon' on Tuesday, they can wait for October 28, 2023, when there will be another partial lunar eclipse that will be visible in some parts of the country, Prof. Adur smiled.<br /><br /><b>SEE ALSO:</b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/meta-expected-to-announce-massive-layoffs-this-week-that-could-impact-thousand-as-tech-bloodbath-continues-wsj/articleshow/95343558.cms">Meta expected to announce massive layoffs this week that could impact thousand as tech bloodbath continues: WSJ</a></b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/twitter-backtracks-elon-musks-platform-will-delay-its-paid-blue-check-verification-plan-until-after-midterms-nyt/articleshow/95343175.cms">Twitter backtracks: Elon Musk's platform will delay its paid blue check verification plan until after midterms: NYT</a></b><br />

World to witness 'Blood Moon' spectacle in the sky on November 8

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Humans have been studying <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-2024-total-solar-eclipse-cool-best-special-nasa-2024-1">total solar eclipses</a> for millennia to better understand the cosmos.</li><li>Total eclipses have helped prove Einstein's theory of relativity and led to the discovery of helium.</li></ul><p>On April 8, millions of people across the US will all do the same thing: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-to-see-total-eclipse-convince-boss-miss-work-2024-4">look up</a>.</p><p>In the middle of the afternoon, day will shift to night, as a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/solar-eclipse-map-nasa-where-when-see-path-of-totality-2024-3">total solar eclipse</a> touches 15 states.</p><p>We know now what causes a total <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/devil-comet-visible-during-total-solar-eclipse-how-see-2024-4">solar eclipse</a>. But our ancient ancestors from millennia ago weren't so certain, and that was bad news for some scientists.</p><p>In the 21st century BCE, China's emporer <a target="_blank" href="https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/eclipse-history">reportedly</a> had two astronomers beheaded for not <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/total-eclipse-solar-power-generation-states-outside-path-totality-2024-3">predicting a total eclipse</a>.</p><p>Over the centuries, total eclipses became less dire and more of an opportunity to test scientific theories and forge <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/helio-year-sun-solar-system-probe-eclipse-events-2024-1">new discoveries</a>.</p><p>Here are seven times a total solar eclipse has helped advance human science.</p><h2>1. Measuring Earth's rotation</h2><div type="image" title="Aerial view of planet Earth covered in clouds." height="1411" width="2124" msid="109088911" hostid="261" sizebytes="77030"></div><p>Some of the earliest suspected records of eclipses <a target="_blank" href="https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/history/">date back</a> thousands of years.</p><p>Some experts have suggested<strong> </strong>petroglyphs or rock carvings found on a monument in Ireland reference an eclipse that took place on November 30 in the year 3,340 BCE. Others have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/18/this-5000-year-old-stone-carving-may-be-the-worlds-first-drawing-of-an-eclipse/">expressed</a> skepticism.</p><p>Human-made markings on tortoise shells from China and a Babylonian tablet from over 3,000 years ago may also contain ancient references to eclipses.</p><p>Though these records are open to interpretation, scholars have <a target="_blank" href="https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/rotation.html">studied</a> historical descriptions of eclipses for centuries. It's how 18th-century astronomer Edmond Halley first realized the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-if-earth-stopped-spinning">Earth's rotation</a> has slowed over millennia.</p><h2>2. Discovering what causes eclipses</h2><div type="image" title="Engraving of  Pericles stands next to Anaxagoras, who is sitting on steps next to columns in Ancient Greece" height="1500" width="2263" msid="109088912" hostid="261" sizebytes="1159624"></div><p>Two modern scholars <a target="_blank" href="https://daily.jstor.org/anaxagoras-and-the-eclipse-the-first-to-get-it-right/">give</a> Greek philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae credit for figuring out the moon's role in eclipses, calling him "perhaps the first empirical astronomer."</p><p>He likely developed his theories after witnessing an annular, or "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/october-solar-eclipse-annular-ring-of-fire-where-how-watch-2023-10">ring of fire</a>," eclipse on February 17, 478 BCE. While he got some of the science right, his overall understanding of the solar system was a product of its time.</p><p>Anaxagoras, for example, thought that air pressure kept the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-living-on-flat-earth-would-look-like-2017-11">flat Earth</a> aloft at the center of the rotating sun, moon, and stars. Despite that error, he worked out the basic mechanics behind eclipses.</p><p>Anaxagoras correctly believed the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-watch-da-vinci-glow-ghostly-shine-moon-phenomenon-2023-5">moon reflected</a> the sun's light. He was also accurate in his theories that when the moon moved in front of the sun, it caused a solar eclipse. Similarly, when the Earth was in between the sun and moon, there would be a lunar eclipse.</p><p>He also used the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-lunar-eclipses-work-earth-moon-red-shadow-2018-7">moon's shadow</a><strong> </strong>during an eclipse<strong> </strong>to estimate its size, but his calculations gave him a much smaller answer than reality.</p><h2>3. Estimating the moon's distance from Earth</h2><div type="image" title="A person is seated looking through a telescope with astrological instruments nearby in Ancient Greece" height="1500" width="2172" msid="109088915" hostid="261" sizebytes="589214"></div><p>On March 14, 189 BCE, a total solar eclipse swept over what is now northern Turkey. Greek astronomer Hipparchus would have just been a child at the time, but it's possible he saw the event.</p><p>Years later, Hipparchus may have used secondhand accounts of that same eclipse to make one of the era's most mathematically accurate estimates of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mind-boggling-nasa-photo-shows-moon-distance-from-earth-2022-10">moon's distance from Earth</a>.</p><p>Though Hipparchus' direct writings are lost, a 4th-century scholar <a target="_blank" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021828618817175">detailed</a> how he used the information.</p><p>The astronomer estimated the distance between where the total eclipse was in modern day Turkey and Alexandria, Egypt — where a fifth of the sun showed — to make his calculation.</p><p>Based on his math, Hipparchus offered a few ranges, including a mean distance<strong> </strong>of about 281,387 miles.</p><p>He wasn't terribly far off. The moon is about 238,855 miles away.</p><h2>4. Predicting the path of an eclipse</h2><div type="image" title="A map of England showing the path of an 18th century eclipse" height="2445" width="2000" msid="109088917" hostid="261" sizebytes="708824"></div><p>In the 11th or 12th century, Mayan astronomers made a remarkable prediction for their time: They calculated that a total solar eclipse would occur in 1991, and their prediction was accurate to within a day.</p><p>It would be centuries until humans made a more accurate prediction. In the 18th century,<strong><em> </em></strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/edmond-halley-solar-lunar-eclipse-manuscripts-sell-auction-2023-12">Edmond Halley</a>, better known for discovering a comet with his name, made a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2015/may/03/halleys-eclipse-newtonian-selling-science-history">map</a> predicting the path of the May 3, 1715 solar eclipse with extreme accuracy.</p><p>Others made maps before him, but Halley based his prediction on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/isaac-newton-burnt-notes-pyramids-apocalypse-theology-sold-auction-2020-12">Isaac Newton</a>'s theory of universal gravitation, which helped him pinpoint the eclipse's timing to within four minutes.</p><h2>5. The discovery of helium</h2><div type="image" title="A drawing of several people seated and standing around astronomical equipment in the late 19th century in India" height="1500" width="2175" msid="109088919" hostid="261" sizebytes="650872"></div><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rare-element-arctic-lava-suggest-earth-core-may-leaking-2023-10">Helium</a> is very abundant in the universe but rare on Earth. It took an eclipse for an astronomer to discover it.</p><p>French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen had <a target="_blank" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-scientists-discovered-helium-first-alien-element-1868-180970057/">traveled</a> to Guntur, India just for the August 18, 1868 eclipse. He was using a spectroscope, a prism-like device for separating sunlight into a spectrum.</p><p>Janssen saw a yellow line with a wavelength unlike any other element. Around the same time, English astronomer Norman Lockyer developed an instrument for viewing the sun even without an eclipse. He saw the same line.</p><p>Lockyer called the mysterious element helium. It took a couple of decades for scientists to see it on Earth, during experiments on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/italy-skeleton-of-a-roman-killed-steps-from-sea-fled-vesuvius-eruption-2021-12">Mount Vesuvius</a> lava and uranium.</p><h2>6. Proof of Einstein's theory of relativity</h2><div type="image" title="A building holds a large piece of astronomical equipment with a long tube and rectangular box" height="1500" width="2244" msid="109088922" hostid="261" sizebytes="221628"></div><p>Astronomer James Craig Watson was certain he'd <a target="_blank" href="https://www.american-eclipse.com/">found</a> proof of a new planet during the 1878 eclipse. Supposedly located between the Sun and Mercury, Vulcan was only visible when the moon blocked the giant star.</p><p>Several more eclipses passed without anyone finding evidence of Vulcan. In 1915, Albert Einstein <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/einstein-showed-newton-was-wrong-about-gravity-now-scientists-are-ncna1038671">explained</a> Mercury's unusual orbit with his general <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/albert-einstein-thought-experiments-2023-10">theory of relativity</a>. It fit the data better than a mysterious, difficult-to-spot extra planet.</p><p>Despite this evidence, Einstein's theory didn't receive scientific proof until the May 29, 1919 eclipse. The physicist had said the sun's gravity would bend light from nearby stars.</p><p>In 1919, expeditions traveled to Principe, an island off the coast of Africa, and Brazil. While the moon blocked the sun, the astronomers took photographs.</p><p>The stars seemed to have shifted locations compared to the reference photos. The apparent new locations showed the sun was bending the light within the measurements that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russell-einstein-manifesto-nuclear-weapons-bombs-danger-2024-2">Einstein predicted</a>.</p><h2>7. Studying eclipses from space</h2><div type="image" title="A large antenna dish beneath a solar eclipse" height="1383" width="2055" msid="109088924" hostid="261" sizebytes="79024"></div><p>Gemini 12 astronauts Jim Lovell and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/buzz-aldrin-thoughts-lunar-module-moon-liftoff-2017-7">Buzz Aldrin</a> were the first humans to see a total eclipse from space. The November 12, 1966 eclipse moved from Peru to Brazil, and the astronauts hovered near the path of totality.</p><p>It was a coincidence that they were close enough to see it, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space-180983909/">Smithsonian Magazine</a>. Aldrin's photos were unfocused and a bit disappointing.</p><p>Four years later, TV networks <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8i9qNslaJA">broadcast</a> the "eclipse of the century," full of images of the event. NASA also launched over two dozen rockets to study <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-sunscreen-is-not-enough-to-protect-you-from-sun-2023-9">UV radiation</a> and solar X-rays during the phenomenon.</p><p>The agency still uses rockets to gather data during eclipses and will launch three on April 8.</p>

7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science 

New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Today is the day when the world will witness the last total <keyword id="90051" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lunar-eclipse" source="Orion">lunar eclipse</keyword> of this year. <br /><br /> At full moon, when the moon is close to a node, total lunar eclipses take place because the earth blocks the sun's rays from reaching the moon.<br /><br /> Almost a year after the last total lunar eclipse, the sight of the moon sliding into the shadows of the Earth returns and graces the sky.<br /><br /> Viewers in North America, Central America, most of South America, the Pacific Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia will see the Moon darken and acquire a reddish in the wee hours of Tuesday, November 8.<br /><br /> When and how to watch lunar eclipse<br /><br /> The Moon traverses the northern half of Earth's shadow, with totality predicted to last 86 minutes. Mid-eclipse happens on November 8th at 10:59 Universal Time (UT), around six days before apogee, when the Moon is farthest from Earth in its orbit. As a result, during the eclipse, the Moon will appear 7 per cent smaller than it does when it's at perigee (closest to Earth), but the difference is imperceptible. The eclipse on Tuesday will be a bit brighter than the one that occurred in May -- especially in the Moon's northern half -- since the Moon doesn't glide as close to the dark center of Earth's shadow.<br /><br /> There are several delightful extras viewers can look out for while admiring the eclipse. During totality, Earth's shadow dims the Moon sufficiently for stars to be visible right up to its edge. In addition, Uranus reaches opposition just a day after the eclipse, when it's directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and at its closest and brightest. And on eclipse night the distant planet will be upper left of the red-hued Moon -- binoculars will reveal the planet's pale disk. The farther west you are, the smaller the gap between planet and Moon. Also, the Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers peak around this time, so eclipse-watchers might be treated to a few meteors streaking across the night sky.<br /><br /> All stages of the eclipse occur simultaneously for everyone, but not everyone will see the full eclipse. Weather permitting, observers in western North America will witness the entirety of the event on the morning of November 8, with the partial eclipse phase beginning an hour or so after midnight. In Hawai'i, the totally eclipsed Moon will be directly overhead. Viewers in the central parts of the continent will see all of totality and most of the final partial phases, while those on the East Coast can watch the Sun rise as totality ends.<br /><br /> South America will witness the initial phases of the eclipse up to totality, while Central America can enjoy the show a bit longer and see it through the total phase. The eclipse is an early evening event in central and eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and the Moon rises either during the earlier partial phases or during totality.<br /><br /> The actual clock times of the eclipse depend on your time zone.<br /><br /> Do's and Don'ts of Lunar Eclipse"<br /><br /> Dos<br /><br /> Until there is a lunar eclipse, tulsi leaves must be added to food products.<br /><br /> Pray for the moon to be released from Rahu's control soon.<br /><br /> Before and after the eclipse, take a holy bath to purify your body and spirit.<br /><br /> Don'ts<br /><br /> During a lunar eclipse, it is typically advised to stay inside and refrain from beginning any new projects or activities.<br /><br /> Pregnant women are strictly forbidden from going outside during a lunar eclipse, cutting or sewing any fabric, carrying sharp tools like scissors or blades, or using knives, among other activities that could harm the unborn child.<br /><br /> As per belief, people avoid consuming food.<br /><br /> Avoid watching the eclipse with your naked eyes<br /><br /> The events that happen during a total lunar eclipse are more complex and interesting than many people realize.<br /><br /> The Moon's leading edge enters the pale outer fringe of Earth's shadow: the penumbra. You probably won't notice anything until the Moon is about halfway across the penumbra.<br /><br /> 1. Watch for a slight darkening on the Moon's left side as seen from North America. The penumbral shading becomes stronger as the Moon moves deeper in.<br /><br /> 2. The penumbra is the region where an astronaut standing on the Moon would see Earth covering only part of the Sun's face.<br /><br /> 3. The Moon's leading edge enters the umbra, the cone of Earth's shadow within which the Sun's completely hidden. You should notice a dramatic darkening on the leading edge of the lunar disk. With a telescope, you can watch the edge of the umbra slowly engulfing one lunar feature after another, as the entire sky begins to grow darker.<br /><br /> 4. The trailing edge of the Moon slips into the umbra for the beginning of total eclipse. But the Moon won't black out completely: It's sure to glow some shade of intense orange or red.<br /><br /> 5. Why is this? The Earth's atmosphere scatters and bends (refracts) sunlight that skims its edges, diverting some of it onto the eclipsed Moon. If you were on the Moon during a lunar eclipse, you'd see the Sun hidden by a dark Earth rimmed with the reddish light of all the sunrises and sunsets ringing the world at that moment.<br /><br /> 6. The red umbral glow can be quite different from one eclipse to the next. Two main factors affect its brightness and hue. The first is simply how deeply the Moon goes into the umbra as it passes through; the center of the umbra is darker than its edges. The other factor is the state of Earth's atmosphere. If a major volcanic eruption has recently polluted the stratosphere with thin global haze, a lunar eclipse can be dark red, ashen brown, or occasionally almost black.<br /><br /> 7. In addition, blue light is refracted through Earth's clear, ozone-rich upper atmosphere above the thicker layers that produce the red sunrise-sunset colors. This ozone-blue light tints the Moon also, especially near the umbra's edge. You'll need binoculars or a telescope to see this effect.<br /><br /> 8. As the Moon progresses along its orbit, events replay in reverse order. The Moon's edge re-emerges into the sunlight, ending totality and beginning a partial eclipse again.<br /><br /> 9. When all of the Moon escapes the umbra, only the last, penumbral shading is left. Sometime later, nothing unusual remains.<br /><br /> The event has five stages, each with different things to watch.(ANI)<br /><br />

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-see-lunar-eclipse-november-longest-in-century-2021-11">lunar eclipse</a> casts the light of all Earth's sunrises and sunsets onto the moon Tuesday morning.</li><li>That <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wildfire-smoke-could-turn-full-buck-moon-blood-red-2021-7">paints the full moon red</a>, raising a blood moon into the skies on Election Day morning.</li></ul><p>A blood-red full moon is set to rise in the sky on the morning of Election Day, November 8, across the US.</p><p>As voters cast their ballots for the general election, Earth's shadow will cast a red glow across the full moon. It's a total lunar eclipse, often called a "blood moon," and there won't be another one until 2025.</p><div type="image" title="voter at polling station booth" height="1500" width="2000" msid="95309676" hostid="261" sizebytes="65098"></div><p>The red color comes from the light of all the sunrises and sunsets happening across the planet. That's because Earth's shadow comes with a ring — the atmosphere, right along the day-night split. Sunlight passes through that atmosphere, which bends it toward the moon. The red portion of the light spectrum is what makes it through to the other side.</p><p>"It's as if all the world's sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the moon," NASA wrote in a <a href="https://moon.nasa.gov/news/185/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-lunar-eclipse/#:~:text=The%20last%20total%20lunar%20eclipse,Moon%20passes%20into%20Earth's%20shadow.">blog post</a> explaining the phenomenon.</p><div type="image" title="graphic shows how earth atmosphere scatters different colors of light" height="555" width="987" msid="95309677" hostid="261" sizebytes="17894"></div><p>"The more dust or clouds in Earth's atmosphere during the eclipse, the redder the moon will appear," NASA said.</p><p>The blood moon will be visible in the early morning hours across all of North and Central America, according to <a href="https://moon.nasa.gov/news/185/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-lunar-eclipse/#:~:text=The%20last%20total%20lunar%20eclipse,Moon%20passes%20into%20Earth's%20shadow.">NASA</a>. People in Asia and Australia can catch the lunar bloodbath in the early evening.</p><p>The total eclipse — the red blood moon — begins at 5:16 a.m. ET and lasts until the moon sets at 6:41 a.m. ET.</p><div type="image" title="gif shows total lunar eclipse shadow falling over moon then turning red" height="338" width="600" msid="95309678" hostid="261" sizebytes="7560"></div><p>"The parts of the moon outside the umbra [shadow] during the partial phases are almost as bright as an ordinary full moon, making the obstructed parts appear nearly black. But during totality, our eyes adjust and reveal a range of hues painted on the moon by all of Earth's sunrises and sunsets," NASA <a href="https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005000/a005033/">wrote</a>.</p><p>After that spectacle, you have the day to cast your ballot. Then wait until March 14, 2025, for the next total lunar eclipse.</p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">This year's harvest moon rises Friday, September 29. It's also the last supermoon of 2023.</strong></li><li><strong>Harvest moons occur in either September or October, depending on the date of the fall equinox.</strong></li></ul><p>There are typically 12 full moons each year, including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-supermoon-august-full-moon-rare-lunar-event-2037-2023-8">three or four supermoons</a>. But while common, full moons have a long history of significance for many people and cultures.  </p><p>"Astronomical events such as this mark the passage of time and provide a steady rhythm to our lives," Patrick Hartigan, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, told Insider via email.</p><p>"These cycles are independent of human activities and remind us that we are part of this world but that we do not control everything," he said.</p><p>The next full moon will be a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/september-harvest-moon-last-supermoon-when-best-time-to-see-2023-9">harvest moon</a>, rising on September 29.</p><h2>September: harvest moon, "corn moon," "barley moon"</h2><div type="image" title="An Amish child and woman stand on horse-drawn wagon while harvesting corn in Maryland" height="1959" width="2613" msid="103970899" hostid="261"></div><p>Over the millennia, September's full moon has signified to farmers that it's time to finish harvesting corn and other crops.</p><p>A harvest moon sometimes occurs in October (the moon doesn't follow the Gregorian calendar), but it's always the full moon closest to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fall-equinox-works-animation-2021-9">autumnal equinox</a>.</p><p>Every few years, the harvest moon falls in October instead of September.</p><p>The harvest moon rises with the setting sun. There's an optical illusion that the moon — any moon — looks larger than usual when it's near the horizon.</p><p>So folks who see the full moon rise from the horizon around sunset may think it looks larger than normal. These bright moonlit nights give farmers a little extra time to harvest their crops.</p><p>This year's harvest moon will reach its peak at 5:58 a.m. ET on September 29, according to <a href="https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-names" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Old Farmer's Almanac</a>. </p><p><strong>The next harvest moon:</strong> September 29, 2023</p><h2>Here are some of the many names assigned to full moons throughout the year.</h2><div type="image" title="person takes phone photo of another person holding a child in front of yellow full moon" height="1500" width="2000" msid="103970900" hostid="261"></div><p>Across North America and Europe, people have used full moons to track months and seasons for thousands of years, naming each one based on the seasonal changes it indicates.</p><p>Different languages and cultures characterized their moons differently, sometimes based on agricultural cycles, sometimes on natural phenomena.</p><p>The names assigned to full moons are often attributed to the native Algonquian peoples, who share a family of languages and originate from the area that today ranges from New England as far west as Lake Superior.</p><p>Colonial settlers across North America adopted their own version of the indigenous names, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.</p><h2>October: "hunter's moon," "blood moon," "dying grass moon," "travel moon"</h2><div type="image" title="hunting shooting guns dogs pheasants" height="1995" width="2661" msid="103970901" hostid="261"></div><p>These names refer to the time of year when leaves have fallen, the deer are fat, and animals are coming into harvested fields to eat what's left. Historically, hunters took advantage of October <a href="https://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-dates-and-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to store meat for the winter</a>.</p><p>Some associate <a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2293/october-2022-the-next-full-moon-is-the-hunters-moon-the-travel-dying-grass-sanguine-or-blood-moon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this month's</a> blood moon or "sanguine moon" with hunting, and it's different from a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/super-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-how-to-watch-2021-5">blood moon caused by a lunar eclipse</a>. In the latter case, the moon appears to have a reddish hue.</p><p><strong>The next hunter's moon:</strong> October 28, 2023</p><h2>November: "beaver moon," "frosty moon"</h2><div type="image" title="A beaver floats in water holding a branch" height="1569" width="2093" msid="103970902" hostid="261"></div><p>Beavers prepare for winter in November, as do trappers. This moon signaled the time to catch beavers and secure a supply of warm furs before the swamps froze.</p><p><strong>The next beaver moon:</strong> November 27, 2023</p><h2>December: "cold moon," "long night's moon"</h2><div type="image" title="full moon snow moon december" height="798" width="1064" msid="103970903" hostid="261"></div><p>December has the longest, darkest nights of the year, and the moon sits above the horizon longer than usual. Some Europeans and their descendants in North America also called the December full moon the "moon before Yule."</p><p><strong>The next cold moon: </strong>December 26, 2023</p><h2>January: "wolf moon," "old moon," "ice moon"</h2><div type="image" title="wolves" height="1978" width="2638" msid="103970904" hostid="261"></div><p>In mid-winter, as the story goes, hungry wolves would gather outside villages in North America and medieval Europe and howl into the night. This full moon was sometimes also called the "moon after Yule."</p><p><strong>The next one:</strong> January 25, 2024</p><h2>February: "snow moon," "hunger moon"</h2><div type="image" title="A full moon rises above the Hudson River in a darkened sky" height="2283" width="3044" msid="103970905" hostid="261"></div><p>In North America, February marks the depths of winter, when snow blankets the ground and fresh food was traditionally harder to come by. Because it's a shorter month, some <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/20056/full-moon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February's don't have a full moon</a> at all.</p><p><strong>The next snow moon: </strong>February 24, 2024</p><h2>March: "worm moon," "sap moon," "crow moon"</h2><div type="image" title="Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker holds a large silver bucket while tapping a maple tree in massachusetts" height="2331" width="3108" msid="103970906" hostid="261"></div><p>As spring approaches, earthworms emerge from the ground, maple trees are ripe for tapping, and migratory birds return as winter ends.</p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-march" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Almanac</a>, that's led Ojibwe people to call this the "sugar moon," Algonquin or Cree to call it the "eagle moon" or "goose moon," and northern Ojibwe to call it the "crow comes back moon."</p><p>European settlers with religious calendars called this the "Lenten moon."</p><p>According to <a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2327/march-2023-the-next-full-moon-is-the-crow-crust-sap-sugar-or-worm-moon/?linkId=204252800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a>, "other names are the 'chaste moon' or the 'death moon,' related to the fasting of Lent and traditions from when the start of spring was the end of the old year and start of the new."</p><p><strong>The next worm moon: </strong>March 25, 2024</p><h2>April: "pink moon," "sprouting grass moon," "egg moon," "fish moon"</h2><div type="image" title="wild flowers on a hill near a road along the California coastline in Big Sur at sunset" height="3384" width="4513" msid="103970907" hostid="261"></div><p>The pink moon is named for the pink phlox flowers that bloom in spring. The other names refer to additional staples of the changing season: growing grass, birds filling nests with eggs, and fish that swim upstream to spawn.</p><p><strong>The next pink moon: </strong>April 23, 2024</p><h2>May: "flower moon," "planting moon"</h2><div type="image" title="A field of pink, white, yellow, and red flowers with a person standing amongst them from a distance" height="2309" width="3078" msid="103970908" hostid="261"></div><p>In May, flowers burst fully into bloom, and it becomes time to sow crops again. Flower moon is an Algonquin name, according to the <a href="https://www.almanac.com/full-moon-may" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Almanac</a>. </p><p>In the Middle Ages, an English name for the May full moon was the "milk moon," according to <a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2361/the-next-full-moon-is-the-flower-corn-or-corn-planting-moon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a>.</p><p><strong>The next flower moon:</strong> May 23, 2024</p><h2>June: "strawberry moon," "rose moon," "hot moon"</h2><div type="image" title="A woman and two children picking strawberries in vermont" height="3000" width="4000" msid="103970910" hostid="261"></div><p>Strawberries ripen for picking in June. Europeans dubbed this the rose moon, and other cultures called it the hot moon because it harkens summer heat ahead.</p><p>"Mead" or "honey moon" are other European names <a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2364/the-next-full-moon-is-the-strawberry-moon-mead-or-honey-moon-and-a-full-moon-weekend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for this</a> full moon. The term "<a href="https://www.insider.com/honeymoon-word-meaning-etymology-2017-3">honeymoon</a>" dates back at least to the 1500s and originally meant a sweet period of time lasting around a month.</p><p><strong>The next strawberry moon:</strong> June 21, 2024</p><h2>July: "buck moon," "thunder moon," "hay moon"</h2><div type="image" title="Two deer lock antlers with a great deal of mud caught between them" height="2609" width="3480" msid="103970911" hostid="261"></div><p>Deer grow new, velvety antlers in July, and thunderstorms rage aplenty in some parts of North America. For Anglo-Saxons, July was all about hay. </p><p>Sockeye fish <a href="https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=sockeyesalmon.printerfriendly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">return to spawn</a> in Alaska in June and July, so it makes sense the Tlingit people <a href="https://www.farmersalmanac.com/julys-full-buck-moon-17525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would call</a> this month's moon the "salmon moon."</p><p><strong>The buck moon:</strong> July 21, 2024</p><h2>August: "sturgeon moon," "red moon"</h2><div type="image" title="A man wearing a hat holds a large sturgeon fish near a body of water" height="3741" width="4988" msid="103970912" hostid="261"></div><p>Tribes near the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain knew August was the best time to catch sturgeon, an enormous, hearty fish. Some people also think the moon appears more reddish in color this month because of the heat.</p><p><strong>The next sturgeon moon: </strong>August 19, 2024</p><h2>Some full moons are called supermoons or micromoons. The contemporary terms refer to how large and small the moon looks at various points in its elliptical orbit.</h2><div type="image" title="A supermoon above a cityscape" height="2287" width="3049" msid="103970913" hostid="261"></div><p>Supermoons occur when the moon is at perigee — the closest point to Earth. They can cause stronger ocean tides and weather events.</p><p>Micromoons are the opposite, occurring at apogee — when the moon is furthest from Earth. They can reduce the variation in spring tides by <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/micro-moon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2 inches</a>. Micromoons appear about 14% smaller than supermoons, and sometimes seem dimmer, since the area illuminated by the sun appears 30% smaller, according to <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/micro-moon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TimeandDate.com</a>.</p><p>Since the International Astronomical Union has not officially defined supermoons or micromoons, astronomers disagree on which full moons get the designation.</p><p><strong>The next full supermoon:</strong> August 19, 2024</p><p><strong>The next full micromoon:</strong> February 24, 2024</p><h2>Blue moons are like special bonuses. They occur every two or three years, when a month or season has one extra full moon.</h2><div type="image" title="A full moon rises over the Wyoming wilderness at Yellowstone National Park, making the sky look purple" height="1500" width="2000" msid="103970914" hostid="261"></div><p>When an astronomical season (the time between solstice and equinox) has four full moons instead of the normal three, the third one is a <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/blue-moon.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seasonal blue moon</a>.</p><p>When a calendar month has two full moons, the second one is a monthly blue moon. That happens because the lunar month is only 29 days long, while the Gregorian calendar month is usually 30 or 31 days long.</p><p>The moon doesn't actually appear blue on these occasions. That would only happen if dust or smoke particles of a particular size cloud the atmosphere, say after a forest fire, volcanic eruption, or dust storm.</p><p><strong>The next seasonal blue moon:</strong> August 19, 2024</p><p><strong>The next monthly blue moon:</strong> August 19, 2024</p>

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