{"id":74012,"date":"2018-01-31T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74012"},"modified":"2019-03-19T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:26:41","slug":"super-blue-blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/31\/super-blue-blood-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Super, blue blood moon dazzles despite clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_74022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74022\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-astronomy-blood-blue-moon.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of the blue blood moon\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-astronomy-blood-blue-moon.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-astronomy-blood-blue-moon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute for Astronomy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A rare super blue blood moon combination didn\u2019t disappoint those in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> who either stayed up late or got up early despite the threat of clouds and rain.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy featured a super moon, which is when the moon\u2019s orbit is closest to Earth making it appear about 14 percent brighter than normal; a blue moon, which is the second full moon of the month; and a total lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>The moon took on a reddish hue as it passed through the Earth\u2019s shadow because of the way Earth\u2019s atmosphere bends light, hence the name blood moon.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds were forecast and did block the rare view for many, but not for all.<\/p>\n<p>The January 31 celestial show was the first of its kind in the western hemisphere in 152 years.<\/p>\n<p>The next total eclipse of the moon across North American will be on January 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The next time this cosmic trifecta will be visible from anywhere on Earth is 2037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare super blue blood moon combination didn\u2019t disappoint those in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> who either stayed up late or got up early despite the threat of clouds and rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":74022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,35,9],"class_list":["post-74012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-astronomy-blood-blue-moon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74029,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74012\/revisions\/74029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}