![]() WHEN CAN YOU SEE THE SUPER FLOWER BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE? And so when the moon goes into our shadow, what it ends up doing is not going completely black, it goes a very dark red, almost purple in colour, and this has been referred to throughout millennia of human history as a blood moon,” he said. "Earth’s shadow isn’t perfectly dark, there’s a little bit of a red tinge to our shadow. And now, you would think that means that the moon would go dark, right? Sunday night, our moon is going to go into earth’s shadow. “What it refers to is that we’re going into a total lunar eclipse this weekend. might not be specific to a name that would have been used by Indigenous nations in Ontario,” Ward-Maxwell said.įor Rogerson, the blood element of this eclipse is the “really, really fun one.” However, “those names are based in different traditions and cultures. It should be noted that the name “flower” itself comes from the Farmer’s Almanac, which has assigned different names to full moons depending on the month (think “harvest moon”). This is the flower moon because it’s happening in April, May, this is the time when we’re starting to get blooms happening and you look outside and you get wonderful flowers and the trees are starting to finally get their leaves, and this is why we call it a flower moon,” Rogerson said. Whenever it’s in that closest approach point that’s called a super moon. So the moon goes around us in an ellipse and what that means is that there’s one point in its orbit that it’s at its closest to earth and then there’s another point in its orbit where it’s furthest from earth. ![]() “ Super refers to the fact that the moon is going to be at its closest approach to us through its orbit. So it’s three different things and all three of them are interesting reflections of humanity,” Rogerson explained. WHY IS IT CALLED SUPER FLOWER BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE? Yes, the event will be as cool as it sounds, and CTV News Toronto spoke with Jesse Rogerson, Ph.D, astrophysicist and assistant professor at York University, and Rachel Ward-Maxwell, Ph.D., Researcher-Programmer, Astronomy & Space Sciences at the Ontario Science Centre for what to expect, and the best place to catch the natural phenomenon. A rare total lunar eclipse is upon us and people in Ontario are uniquely positioned to see what’s known as a super flower blood moon this Sunday night.
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