{"id":32261,"date":"2022-11-07T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000028806"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:50:28","slug":"column-a-sign-for-election-day-how-about-a-blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/column-a-sign-for-election-day-how-about-a-blood-moon","title":{"rendered":"Column: A sign for Election Day? How about a blood moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We really do have a pathological passion for all things meteorological<\/a>, nautical<\/a> and celestial<\/a> in the Long Beach Post Newsroom.<\/p>\n

And while we wait for the next consequential content compulsion to overcome us \u2014 whether it\u2019s waiting for our ship to sail in<\/a>, or waiting for a Great Conjunction planetary alignment,<\/a> or waiting for a hurricane to maybe but probably ultimately not make landfall<\/a> in Long Beach \u2014 it appears we\u2019ll instead have to settle for something slightly less exciting for now: a total lunar eclipse, visible across Southern California and beginning just after midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n

But if it\u2019s just after midnight, wouldn\u2019t it technically be early Tuesday morning and not Monday?<\/p>\n

Whatever. Timing has never been <\/a>one of our biggest strengths.<\/p>\n

Anyway, according to NASA, the eclipse will begin just after midnight Monday (Tuesday?) on the West Coast, when the moon enters the penumbra.<\/p>\n

Penumbra, of course, originating from the Latin root \u2018paene<\/i>,\u2019 meaning, \u2018we didn\u2019t,\u2019 and \u2018umbra<\/i>,\u2019 meaning, \u2018study Latin.\u2019<\/p>\n

Local school children informed us the definition of a total lunar eclipse is when the Earth’s orbit places the Blue Planet completely between the sun and the full moon, blocking all direct sunlight from reaching the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

During a total eclipse, the moon appears to take on a red hue \u2014 a “blood moon.”<\/p>\n

Because that\u2019s exactly the sort of ominous sign from the heavens we need on Election Day.<\/p>\n

Or the night before Election Day.<\/p>\n

NASA said the alignment will last close to 90 minutes, ending at about 3:40 a.m. Tuesday (see we\u2019re back to this Monday night\/Tuesday morning thing again) Pacific time. There will be a partial Lunar eclipse for another hour afterward.<\/p>\n

The Griffith Observatory is closed Monday and Tuesday, but the observatory is hosting an online broadcast of the eclipse from midnight to 6 a.m. A time-lapse version of the eclipse feed will be available from Griffith Observatory’s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next total Lunar eclipse visible from the continental United States won’t occur until March 14, 2025, according to NASA.<\/p>\n

Unlike a solar eclipse<\/a>, no special eyewear is required to observe a Lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n

But seriously, please don’t stare at the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A time-lapse version of the eclipse feed will be available from Griffith Observatory’s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":72053,"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":[6],"tags":[31873],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32018],"class_list":["post-32261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-lunar-eclipse","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261","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\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32261"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=32261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=32261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}