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3 Things To Know About a Blood Moon

Tonight is the Blood Moon and like most movies the Blood Moon has many mystical theories behind it.

CelebNMusic247.com has the inside track on the Blood Moon which plays a pivitol part in pop culture today and in the world of witches, warlocks, wolves and vampires it’s everything.

In Beautiful Creatures the Blood Moon decides ones powers to the light or the dark. In Wolf films it is the coming of a young man finally becoming a man/wolf. The blood moon played a pivotal part in an episode from the 2013 freshman season of “Sleepy Hollow.” The leader of a coven of dark witches, known as Serilda of Abaddon,

However NASA has a more real theory of what a lunar Blood Moon is all about.

What is a blood moon?

A blood moon is so-called, due to the moon’s red hue during a total lunar eclipse. The United States will be in prime orbital position to witness a blood moon in the wee hours of this morning. “Depending on local weather conditions, the public will get a spectacular view looking into the sky as the moon’s appearance will change from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and perhaps gray,” explains NASA. “The eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs when the Earth, moon and sun are in perfect alignment, blanketing the moon in the Earth’s shadow.” The next time the U.S. will be in this position to witness a lunar eclipse is in 2019.

Why is it red?

NASA has the answer for us in the form of a helpful video, which is located below. The moon itself is rock and does not emanate any light of its own. The moon’s glow comes from reflected light from the sun; its position in relation to the Earth and sun is also the reason for its “changing” shape in the night sky. The moon has a tilted orbital path, which means that rather than us having an eclipse every month, total lunar eclipses happen far less frequently. As the moon passes through the center of the Earth’s shadow, known as the umbra, the moon gets significantly darker and then turns a blood red when it is fully engulfed by the Earth’s shadow. It is red “due to sunlight scattered through the earth’s atmosphere,” which reflects off the surface of the moon.

What’s so special about this blood moon?

This blood moon is special because it the first lunar eclipse that is part of a blood moon tetrad. A tetrad is a series of four lunar eclipses that happen within six-month intervals of each other.