Before 31 January, a lot of information was being circulated in the electronic media about this lunar eclipse leading to bloodmoon, a supermoon and bluemoon all three phenomena happening at the same time. This phenomenon was last seen 152 years ago on 31 March 1866.
Supermoon because the moon would be at the nearest position to the earth in its orbit, 360,199 km compared to average of 382,900 km. It would appear 14% larger and 30% brighter. A bluemoon because it's the second full moon of the month. Thirdly, a total lunar eclipse or the bloodmoon. This happens when the earth is aligned in between the sun and the moon in a straight line. Bloodmoon would appear when the blue colour sunlight would be filtered by the earth's atmosphere leaving the red and orange light being projected onto the moon surface.
Not to miss out of this one-in-a-lifetime rare event, we decided to join the crowd at Yayasan Sabah organized by the Sabah Stargazers.
Supermoon because the moon would be at the nearest position to the earth in its orbit, 360,199 km compared to average of 382,900 km. It would appear 14% larger and 30% brighter. A bluemoon because it's the second full moon of the month. Thirdly, a total lunar eclipse or the bloodmoon. This happens when the earth is aligned in between the sun and the moon in a straight line. Bloodmoon would appear when the blue colour sunlight would be filtered by the earth's atmosphere leaving the red and orange light being projected onto the moon surface.
Not to miss out of this one-in-a-lifetime rare event, we decided to join the crowd at Yayasan Sabah organized by the Sabah Stargazers.
At the sighting, we were fortunate to get to know a stargazer who came with his powerful telescope. He willingly offered his phone contact to many of the bystanders so that all the phases of the moon orbits during the eclipse could be shared with us.
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| The stargazer who shared all the sightings with the public, |
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| 20:10 |
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| 20:36 |
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| 20:45 - Beginning of Blood Moon. |
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| 20:52 |
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| 20:57 |
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| 21:25 - Full Eclipse |
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| 21:36 |
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| 22:14 |
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