May is your month if you gaze up at the full moon and think, "It's OK, I guess, but when does it do something?" A full lunar eclipse will be visible in most of North America this month. You can watch the entire show in most of North America, all of South America and Western Africa, and parts of Western Europe late on May 15 and into May 16. The eclipse will happen at the following times if everything goes according to plan. It needs to be cleaned up. It comes with a self-emptying base, a deep clean feature for big days, and is great at getting pet hair.
A complete schedule for watching May’s lunar eclipse
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A lunar eclipse occurs when the shadow of Earth passes before the moon. Eclipses can be partial, when the Earth's shadow is less than the moon's shadow. The moon doesn't disappear completely. Light from Earth's sunsets and sunrises still reach the lunar surface, and those stretched-out light waves make the moon appear red. We call it the Blood Moon.
Unlike a solar eclipse, you can watch a lunar eclipse.
The names of the moons are unofficial and are based on Native Americans' lunar calendars. The name May comes from the fact that flowers bloom in May.
The return of spring is celebrated by most Native American groups. The local plants were called The Budding Moon. It is a good time to plant according to the Dakota. My favorite name for May's moon comes from the Ogala, who called it a descriptive and evocative name.
I'm glad you asked! Christopher Columbus was stranded in Jamaica in 1504. His ships were damaged in a storm, but his crew was able to survive because of the charity of the Arawak people. There was tension between the groups. The Arawak stopped bringing food to Columbus and his crew because the unwanted houseguests stole from their hosts and killed some of them.
Columbus met with the head of the group and told him that God was angry at him because he wouldn't keep bringing food. He is going to turn the moon red in a couple of nights.
I'm pretty sure they laughed him out of the room, but Columbus had consulted an astronomy text and knew an eclipse was going to happen on the night he predicted.
The Arawak pleaded with Columbus to intercede with his god after the moon rose red during the eclipse. Columbus pretended to convince god to spare the Arawak, timing his prayers with the exact moments of full eclipse. The Arawak fed the lazy invaders until they were rescued after the moon went back to normal.
According to Christopher Columbus, this story almost reads like a historical myth, but it really happened. The dates of the eclipse match the date of the Columbus voyage, so he probably wasn't clever enough to invent a whole cloth about it.
Lucian wrote the first science fiction story in the second century. In A True Story, explorers on a ship are caught in the middle of a war between the moon and the sun.
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