This morning around 6am Nashville got our peek at the super rare Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse, which sounds like a bad energy drink flavor. This convergence of factors last happened 152 years ago. I didn't get a picture of it, cell cameras never do celestial shots well, so here it is over New York instead.
What makes a Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse? First we have the "super moon" which is when the moon is at its closest point to Earth and appears larger than usual in the sky. Then we have the "blue moon" which has nothing to do with color, it just means a second full moon in the same month which rarely happens. Next the "blood moon"which does refer to color. The sun's rays filtered through Earth's atmosphere during a lunar eclipse turn the moon a copper color. However depending on your area you don't see the eclipse, or only part of it, just the blood moon. And finally of course, the lunar eclipse itself, which is when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon.
Here in Nashville we only got about a half eclipse, but it was still cool to see.
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