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Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16

238 points by perihelions 5y ago

SemanticStrengh 5y ago
It's a total eclipse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk
jph 5y ago
NASA has a good map of places and times to see the eclipse. https://moon.nasa.gov/news/172/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-lunar-eclipse/ https://moon.nasa.gov/news/172/what-you-need-to-know-about-t...
- deleted 5y ago
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- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  They’re also streaming it. https://youtu.be/vGIaEIICIcs https://youtu.be/vGIaEIICIcs
NickNaraghi 5y ago
Maximum eclipse at 4:11 UTC (11:11pm ET) Full time details here: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16
- aoeusnth1 5y ago
  4:11 UTC should be 12:11am ET.
thombat 5y ago
An easier to interpret description: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 which given your location tells you what to expect. For me the news is bleak: full eclipse begins at 05:23 local time, and sunrise is just 4 minutes later, so the darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky. But the site overall is a go-to for easily digested information on all things daylight.
- oneepic 5y ago
  Ironically, the website is called "timeanddate" and I'm still confused by the times on this site. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong... let me know. Right now it's 12:53 PST, and the countdown says it's about 5hr 38 mins to go until the eclipse begins, but then if you click the Seattle link on that page [1] it says it actually begins at 8:34 pm PST. On top of that, it shows the maximum at 9:11 pm PST. In short, maybe the countdown is 3 hours off? And it's trying to communicate the time left until the maximum? [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle
  - perihelions 5y ago
    From further down on your link: - "6:32 pm: Penumbral Eclipse begins / Below horizon" - "8:29 pm: Total Eclipse begins / Below horizon" - "8:34 pm: Moonrise / Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends."
  - reaperducer 5y ago
    Right now it's 12:53 PST I think you mean PDT. Which may or may not account for some of the miscalculation.
    - sowbug 5y ago
      People should give up on specifying the S or D in casual timezone references. Simply writing "12:53 Pacific" usually gets the point across. Incorrect usage of S during D times of year is far more common than the rare case where the indicator matters.
      - acwan93 5y ago
        Hard to say. Those in Arizona not in the Navajo nation wouldn't agree with you since they're still on MST. I usually say "PT/MT/CT/ET" for those not in the list of stateside exceptions since it just removes ambiguity.
DoreenMichele 5y ago
A lot of years ago, I watched a total eclipse of the moon from the parking lot of my husband's place of employment. My husband, our kids and some of his coworkers attended as well. The moon turned red at some point. It was a pretty eerie experience. If you can do so at least once in your life, I recommend it. Total eclipses aren't all that common. Eclipses occur every six months, usually in pairs (one solar, one lunar, two weeks apart), but most are partial eclipses.
sp332 5y ago
Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :(
- DoreenMichele 5y ago
  Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :( I've done a bit of searching and can find nothing that corroborates your statement. If you could link me to a study or other data source showing a correlation between lunar eclipses and specific weather events, I would be interested. Edit: As noted in a different comment, solar eclipses do impact weather: https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-eclipse-weather-argentina-chile-july-2 https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-ecli...
  - russdill 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
  - the_oh_of_ples 5y ago
    I think the OP was bemoaning the fact that the thunderstorms will prevent them from seeing the eclipse.
- layer8 5y ago
  It’s a lunar eclipse, not a solar eclipse (which does affect weather to some degree).
Linda703 5y ago
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acqbu 5y ago
- anyfoo 5y ago
  Such quips aren’t well received on HN (for good reason unfortunately, look at Reddit), so let me instead entirely seriously state that I was not able to read that title without having that Bonnie Tyler song stuck in me head. That happened multiple times today.
  - nvader 5y ago
    So, would you say every now and then?
  - acqbu 5y ago
    Thanks, I think I get it now. Btw, do you believe in life after love?
dom96 5y ago
Even though this is from gov.uk it doesn't seem the UK gets this fully? Feels like eclipses are always disappointing in the UK
- layer8 5y ago
  The maximum of the eclipse is below the horizon in UK/Europe, unfortunately.
  - dr_dshiv 5y ago
    But how tall of a tower do you seen to see it?
    - layer8 5y ago
      Not sure, but possibly taller than any available towers.
CalChris 5y ago
Moonrise isn't until 8:04pm YC time. But the eclipse itself will have already begun at 6:32 pm. The eclipse is today YC time but tomorrow GMT.
- 12ian34 5y ago
  did pg get his own timezone now?
  - layer8 5y ago
    Well, there’s PGT. ;)
fareesh 5y ago
Turn around...
akavi 5y ago
As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024
- Cadwhisker 5y ago
  The one I'm waiting for will be a toal solar eclipse for 4 minutes over Sydney on the 22nd July 2028... https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0412028/ https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0412028/ Knowing Sydney, they'll probably blow up a ton of fireworks or something...
- bittercynic 5y ago
  A good one for North America in October, 2023 also: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2023-october-14 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2023-october-14
flawn 5y ago
WOW, I HAD NIGHT SHIFT AND WAS 30 MIN TOO LATE. the moon was already behind the mountains
dudeinjapan 5y ago
Total Eclipse of the Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
thealienthing 5y ago
This explains a lot. I was driving in LA on vacation with my family and we were surprised to see the full moon covered by a “dark cloud” that kept covering more and more until I couldn’t see it for a while. The evening sky just made it seem like it must be cloud or smog in the distance.
hsnewman 5y ago
Just remember not to look directly at it...
- bagels 5y ago
  It is generally considered safe to look at a lunar eclipse.
lunchladydoris 5y ago
That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.
genocidicbunny 5y ago
Watching this up near Lick Observatory was a lovely way to spend an evening. Lovely view of the South Bay Area, lovely view of the moon.
asim 5y ago
I'm in the UK near London. I couldn't see it. Sorely disappointed. Someday I'd like to witness this with my own eyes.
- raffraffraff 5y ago
  I'm in Dublin. I can't remember the last time there was any sort of eclipse, meteor shower or alignment of the planets that wasn't obscured by cloud. If it had been yesterday morning it would have been clear.
Gordonjcp 5y ago
I got up to take a look, but after three days of entirely cloudless skies it was pissing down with rain and the cloud base somewhere around the top of the garden fence. Of course even down south here at 56.5°N it still gets light really early this time of year, so it was already light enough to see that I was not going to see the moon.
Maursault 5y ago
Wish I could have gotten a picture. I've seen a few lunar eclipses before, usually looks like a round shadow slowly covering a flat disk. Something was different last night; Moon looked more 3-dimensional, at first like a round egg, then as the penumbra shadow fell, it started to look distinctly like an eye-ball. The rest was typical, but that part stunned me.

238 points by perihelions 5y ago

It's a total eclipse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk

jph 5y ago

NASA has a good map of places and times to see the eclipse. https://moon.nasa.gov/news/172/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-lunar-eclipse/ https://moon.nasa.gov/news/172/what-you-need-to-know-about-t...

deleted 5y ago
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toomuchtodo 5y ago
They’re also streaming it. https://youtu.be/vGIaEIICIcs https://youtu.be/vGIaEIICIcs

NickNaraghi 5y ago

Maximum eclipse at 4:11 UTC (11:11pm ET) Full time details here: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16

aoeusnth1 5y ago
4:11 UTC should be 12:11am ET.

thombat 5y ago

An easier to interpret description: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16 which given your location tells you what to expect. For me the news is bleak: full eclipse begins at 05:23 local time, and sunrise is just 4 minutes later, so the darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky. But the site overall is a go-to for easily digested information on all things daylight.

oneepic 5y ago
Ironically, the website is called "timeanddate" and I'm still confused by the times on this site. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong... let me know. Right now it's 12:53 PST, and the countdown says it's about 5hr 38 mins to go until the eclipse begins, but then if you click the Seattle link on that page [1] it says it actually begins at 8:34 pm PST. On top of that, it shows the maximum at 9:11 pm PST. In short, maybe the countdown is 3 hours off? And it's trying to communicate the time left until the maximum? [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle
- perihelions 5y ago
  From further down on your link: - "6:32 pm: Penumbral Eclipse begins / Below horizon" - "8:29 pm: Total Eclipse begins / Below horizon" - "8:34 pm: Moonrise / Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends."
- reaperducer 5y ago
  Right now it's 12:53 PST I think you mean PDT. Which may or may not account for some of the miscalculation.
  - sowbug 5y ago
    People should give up on specifying the S or D in casual timezone references. Simply writing "12:53 Pacific" usually gets the point across. Incorrect usage of S during D times of year is far more common than the rare case where the indicator matters.
    - acwan93 5y ago
      Hard to say. Those in Arizona not in the Navajo nation wouldn't agree with you since they're still on MST. I usually say "PT/MT/CT/ET" for those not in the list of stateside exceptions since it just removes ambiguity.

DoreenMichele 5y ago

A lot of years ago, I watched a total eclipse of the moon from the parking lot of my husband's place of employment. My husband, our kids and some of his coworkers attended as well. The moon turned red at some point. It was a pretty eerie experience. If you can do so at least once in your life, I recommend it. Total eclipses aren't all that common. Eclipses occur every six months, usually in pairs (one solar, one lunar, two weeks apart), but most are partial eclipses.

sp332 5y ago

Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :(

DoreenMichele 5y ago
Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :( I've done a bit of searching and can find nothing that corroborates your statement. If you could link me to a study or other data source showing a correlation between lunar eclipses and specific weather events, I would be interested. Edit: As noted in a different comment, solar eclipses do impact weather: https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-eclipse-weather-argentina-chile-july-2 https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-ecli...
- russdill 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
- the_oh_of_ples 5y ago
  I think the OP was bemoaning the fact that the thunderstorms will prevent them from seeing the eclipse.
layer8 5y ago
It’s a lunar eclipse, not a solar eclipse (which does affect weather to some degree).

Linda703 5y ago

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acqbu 5y ago

anyfoo 5y ago
Such quips aren’t well received on HN (for good reason unfortunately, look at Reddit), so let me instead entirely seriously state that I was not able to read that title without having that Bonnie Tyler song stuck in me head. That happened multiple times today.
- nvader 5y ago
  So, would you say every now and then?
- acqbu 5y ago
  Thanks, I think I get it now. Btw, do you believe in life after love?

dom96 5y ago

Even though this is from gov.uk it doesn't seem the UK gets this fully? Feels like eclipses are always disappointing in the UK

layer8 5y ago
The maximum of the eclipse is below the horizon in UK/Europe, unfortunately.
- dr_dshiv 5y ago
  But how tall of a tower do you seen to see it?
  - layer8 5y ago
    Not sure, but possibly taller than any available towers.

CalChris 5y ago

Moonrise isn't until 8:04pm YC time. But the eclipse itself will have already begun at 6:32 pm. The eclipse is today YC time but tomorrow GMT.

12ian34 5y ago
did pg get his own timezone now?
- layer8 5y ago
  Well, there’s PGT. ;)

fareesh 5y ago

Turn around...

akavi 5y ago

As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045 [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024

Cadwhisker 5y ago
The one I'm waiting for will be a toal solar eclipse for 4 minutes over Sydney on the 22nd July 2028... https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0412028/ https://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/0412028/ Knowing Sydney, they'll probably blow up a ton of fireworks or something...
bittercynic 5y ago
A good one for North America in October, 2023 also: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2023-october-14 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2023-october-14

flawn 5y ago

WOW, I HAD NIGHT SHIFT AND WAS 30 MIN TOO LATE. the moon was already behind the mountains

dudeinjapan 5y ago

Total Eclipse of the Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

thealienthing 5y ago

This explains a lot. I was driving in LA on vacation with my family and we were surprised to see the full moon covered by a “dark cloud” that kept covering more and more until I couldn’t see it for a while. The evening sky just made it seem like it must be cloud or smog in the distance.

hsnewman 5y ago

Just remember not to look directly at it...

bagels 5y ago
It is generally considered safe to look at a lunar eclipse.

lunchladydoris 5y ago

That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.

genocidicbunny 5y ago

Watching this up near Lick Observatory was a lovely way to spend an evening. Lovely view of the South Bay Area, lovely view of the moon.

asim 5y ago

I'm in the UK near London. I couldn't see it. Sorely disappointed. Someday I'd like to witness this with my own eyes.

raffraffraff 5y ago
I'm in Dublin. I can't remember the last time there was any sort of eclipse, meteor shower or alignment of the planets that wasn't obscured by cloud. If it had been yesterday morning it would have been clear.

Gordonjcp 5y ago

I got up to take a look, but after three days of entirely cloudless skies it was pissing down with rain and the cloud base somewhere around the top of the garden fence. Of course even down south here at 56.5°N it still gets light really early this time of year, so it was already light enough to see that I was not going to see the moon.

Maursault 5y ago

Wish I could have gotten a picture. I've seen a few lunar eclipses before, usually looks like a round shadow slowly covering a flat disk. Something was different last night; Moon looked more 3-dimensional, at first like a round egg, then as the penumbra shadow fell, it started to look distinctly like an eye-ball. The rest was typical, but that part stunned me.