{"id":30298,"date":"2022-05-16T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000026648"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:00:49","slug":"photos-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-was-a-heavenly-show-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/news\/photos-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-was-a-heavenly-show-sunday-night","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Lunar eclipse ‘blood moon’ was a heavenly show Sunday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was “an eclipse for the Americas,” according to a planetary geologist for NASA, describing Sunday night’s total lunar eclipse, which was best viewed by skywatchers in North and South America.<\/p>\n

The eclipse could be viewed in prime time in Long Beach, when it began at about 6:30 p.m., reaching maximum eclipse at 9:11, with the light show\u2014or, rather, dark show\u2014continuing until nearly midnight.<\/p>\n

The moon, during most of the eclipse, took on a rust-hued cast\u2014or, for the more sanguine, blood-red\u2014due to the fact that when the moon is in the shadow of the Earth, blue and green light gets scattered, leaving orange and red.<\/p>\n

The warm Sunday evening was clear and gave local viewers a long and perfect opportunity to witness the celestial phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The next total lunar eclipse will appear in November, but it will be best viewed in Europe and Africa. After that, the next one will be in March 2025.<\/p>\n

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Total lunar eclipse seen behind the Queen Mary in Long Beach, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Sarahi Apaez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Total lunar eclipse rises behind the Queen Mary in Long Beach, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Sarahi Apaez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The flower blood moon in Long Beach, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Sarahi Apaez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The blood moon seen rising behind the Queen Mary in Long Beach, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Sarahi Apaez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Total lunar eclipse rises behind the Queen Mary in Long Beach, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo by Sarahi Apaez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The warm Sunday evening was clear and gave local viewers a long and perfect opportunity to witness the celestial phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":72018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2002],"tags":[32024,32025],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2792],"class_list":["post-30298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blood-moon","tag-total-lunar-eclipse","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}