Compliments of the [URL='http://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cbdae48346e27595c84c91061&id=00aca78f5b&e=abe7f35d76']Old Farmers Almanac[/URL], we need to get ready for a full harvest moon on September 27th. Here’s the Almanc’s passage: “On Sunday September 27, it’s not just the [URL='http://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cbdae48346e27595c84c91061&id=0ecdfa9011&e=abe7f35d76']Harvest Moon[/URL]. It’s not even just the closest and largest Moon of the entire year. Added to all that, the Moon goes into a [URL='http://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cbdae48346e27595c84c91061&id=e9980236c2&e=abe7f35d76']total lunar eclipse[/URL] at the same time. And it’s visible from your front yard. Or back yard. Doesn’t matter. You see, astronomers may say that when the Moon comes close to us it has reached its “perigee.” But the media, at least the past few years, calls a nearby moon a “MegaMoon.” And if it happens on the same night it’s full, then watch out: We Have a Mega Full Moon. That's not all. When the full Moon goes into Earth’s shadow, astronomers call it a total lunar eclipse. Typically happens every year or two. But the media have started referring to this event as a “Blood Moon.” No matter that a fully eclipsed moon actually turns coppery red like a penny, more like orange, and not remotely red like blood. Anyone with blood the color of an eclipsed moon should go to the emergency room. None of that matters. What’s important is that you’re going to increasingly hear about this event during the coming days, and it may sound like something scary or dangerous. [B]Mega-Harvest-Blood Moon[/B]. If this doesn’t get the coyotes howling, nothing will. It’s not dangerous—although we really can expect the year’s highest and lowest tides that day and the next. But you do want to watch it.
