super flower blood moon set to appear.
This lunar eclipse will take place as the moon moves into the
Earth s shadow and blocks the light of the sun and its name is made up of a variety of different factors.
The
super part is because the moon will be at the closest point to our planet possible on its orbit and the flower part is attributed to the fact that it will be a full moon appearing in May.
The
blood part is the shade of the moon caused by a mixture of red-orange light that has been refracted through the earth s atmosphere.
Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 13.31 EDT
A total lunar eclipse coinciding with a supermoon will be visible in Australian skies on Wednesday night for the first time in more than three years.
The last total lunar eclipse, also known as a blood moon, was in January 2019, but one has not been visible in Australia since 2018.
A supermoon, such as last month’s “pink moon”, a more common phenomenon, takes place when the full moon occurs near the closest point in its orbit to Earth.
Wednesday’s “super blood moon”, a combination of the two events, will be visible from the early evening in Australia. The last time this happened was in early 2018 when a blood moon and a super moon also coincided with a blue moon for the first time since 1866.