No Blood On My Moon!
By JENNY ARCHER
@bookbar (1609)
Sudbury, England
September 28, 2015 1:39am CST
The sky was unusually clear, at around 4.40am, so although, it was my usual time of rising, no extra effort required,the heralded eclipse, was already happening.
But there was nothing "Bloody" about it...just a supersize yellow ball, bearing a beautifully outlined shadow of Earth, across it's lower regions...so bright, it was more like an early sunrise, that lit up the road, and cancelled out the streetlights, effectively... but nowhere, could I see even a 'bloody streak, to demonstrate a Blood moon, so I was a little disappointed, obviously, it's 'bleeding' display was happening elsewhere, and not for my lowly eyes.
Our area angle of refraction, must have been turned the wrong way, to create such a spectacle...but been there,done that,even if the 'fire and brimstone' didn't happen for me! 

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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
28 Sep 15
I never got round to watching it because I simply went to bed and forgot.
This is no real loss to me because I may not have been able to see it anyway. My eyesight is not good and even during perigee the moon is over 225000 miles away.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
28 Sep 15
You possibly wouldn't have needed a telescope for this huge, bright monster, that virtually filled the bedroom window, even if it was the wrong colour, but So bright, you did need to squint a little, or find sunglasses in the dark....

@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
28 Sep 15
It wasn't red here either. I've only seen the red in photos.
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@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
28 Sep 15
@PhredWreck that makes sense - so its just a flash of Blood actually - like a splatter

@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
28 Sep 15
I don't think every part of the world gets the same effect. But, I see from other comments that one needs a powerful telescope in order to see it.
It was cloudy here, and I wasn't up anyway.
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is weird because its not even red - i think only through a seriously BIG telescope it might be




