Anyone See The Super Blood Wolf Moon Sunday Night?

[El Castor]

I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

[islander]

Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

I checked it out several times during the evening. We had intermittent
cloud cover, so viewing was pretty much hit or miss. At the peak, I
could not see it at all and don't know if that was due to cloud cover or
simply because the shadow completely obscured it. My wife was not
impressed.

[El Castor]

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

I checked it out several times during the evening. We had intermittent
cloud cover, so viewing was pretty much hit or miss. At the peak, I
could not see it at all and don't know if that was due to cloud cover or
simply because the shadow completely obscured it. My wife was not
impressed.

We had the same problem. I gave up, but went out for one last look.
The sky in that area had cleared and the eclipse had begun to end, but
90% was still in the Earth's shadow. The part in the shadow was as I
described. Unlike anything I had ever seen.

[rumpelstiltskin]

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

I checked it out several times during the evening. We had intermittent
cloud cover, so viewing was pretty much hit or miss. At the peak, I
could not see it at all and don't know if that was due to cloud cover or
simply because the shadow completely obscured it. My wife was not
impressed.

We were heavily clouded over in San Francisco, unfortunately.

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse/?fbclid=IwAR1R4cmMRfvDBT_7hQPLz85BmZPd1MjjKeqW-huRjPIurYQjWsShhJE59rA

A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse

Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with the first known sighting of a meteorite impact during such an event.

The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video. During the eclipse, some people noticed a tiny flash, a brief yellow-white speck, popping up on the lunar surface during the online broadcasts.

One Reddit user raised the possibility that this was a meteorite impact and others scoured eclipse footage for evidence of the event. A flash is visible in at least three different videos.

Jose Maria Madiedo at the University of Huelva in Spain has confirmed that the impact is genuine. For years, he and his colleagues have been hoping to observe a meteorite impact on the moon during a lunar eclipse, but the brightness of these events can make that very difficult – lunar meteorite impacts have been filmed before, but not during an eclipse.

On this occasion, Madiedo doubled the number of telescopes trained on different parts of the moon – from four to eight – in the hope of seeing an impact. “I had a feeling, this time will be the time it will happen,” says Madiedo.

After the eclipse, software automatically pinpointed a flash in imagery recorded by several of his telescopes. This helps to confirm that the flashes seen by live stream-watchers were not just optical anomalies on camera sensors.

“I was really, really happy when this happened,” says Madiedo. He notes that the flash was quite bright and it struck the moon at a moment when the eclipse was not overly luminous itself, perhaps making the strike easier to detect.

Although he has not yet formally calculated an estimate for the size of the space rock that collided with the moon, Madiedo thinks it probably weighed about two kilograms and was roughly the size of a football.

“The combination of a darkened surface and a lot of people watching made it much more likely that the flash of impact was seen – and it reminds us that the solar system is still a very dynamic place,” says Robert Massey at the Royal Astronomical Society.

[rumpelstiltskin]

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse/?fbclid=IwAR1R4cmMRfvDBT_7hQPLz85BmZPd1MjjKeqW-huRjPIurYQjWsShhJE59rA
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse
Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with the first known sighting of a meteorite impact during such an event.
The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video. During the eclipse, some people noticed a tiny flash, a brief yellow-white speck, popping up on the lunar surface during the online broadcasts.
One Reddit user raised the possibility that this was a meteorite impact and others scoured eclipse footage for evidence of the event. A flash is visible in at least three different videos.
Jose Maria Madiedo at the University of Huelva in Spain has confirmed that the impact is genuine. For years, he and his colleagues have been hoping to observe a meteorite impact on the moon during a lunar eclipse, but the brightness of these events can make that very difficult – lunar meteorite impacts have been filmed before, but not during an eclipse.
On this occasion, Madiedo doubled the number of telescopes trained on different parts of the moon – from four to eight – in the hope of seeing an impact. “I had a feeling, this time will be the time it will happen,” says Madiedo.
After the eclipse, software automatically pinpointed a flash in imagery recorded by several of his telescopes. This helps to confirm that the flashes seen by live stream-watchers were not just optical anomalies on camera sensors.
“I was really, really happy when this happened,” says Madiedo. He notes that the flash was quite bright and it struck the moon at a moment when the eclipse was not overly luminous itself, perhaps making the strike easier to detect.
Although he has not yet formally calculated an estimate for the size of the space rock that collided with the moon, Madiedo thinks it probably weighed about two kilograms and was roughly the size of a football.
“The combination of a darkened surface and a lot of people watching made it much more likely that the flash of impact was seen – and it reminds us that the solar system is still a very dynamic place,” says Robert Massey at the Royal Astronomical Society.

Maybe I'm just a fossil, but my understanding was that a piece
of debris flying through space was a "meteor", and a "meteorite"
was the debris left on the surface of a planet or planetoid after
the meteor had collided with the planet/planetoid. If so, then
right up to and including the flash of impact, the object is a
"meteor".

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse/?fbclid=IwAR1R4cmMRfvDBT_7hQPLz85BmZPd1MjjKeqW-huRjPIurYQjWsShhJE59rA
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse
Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with the first known sighting of a meteorite impact during such an event.
The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video. During the eclipse, some people noticed a tiny flash, a brief yellow-white speck, popping up on the lunar surface during the online broadcasts.
One Reddit user raised the possibility that this was a meteorite impact and others scoured eclipse footage for evidence of the event. A flash is visible in at least three different videos.
Jose Maria Madiedo at the University of Huelva in Spain has confirmed that the impact is genuine. For years, he and his colleagues have been hoping to observe a meteorite impact on the moon during a lunar eclipse, but the brightness of these events can make that very difficult – lunar meteorite impacts have been filmed before, but not during an eclipse.
On this occasion, Madiedo doubled the number of telescopes trained on different parts of the moon – from four to eight – in the hope of seeing an impact. “I had a feeling, this time will be the time it will happen,” says Madiedo.
After the eclipse, software automatically pinpointed a flash in imagery recorded by several of his telescopes. This helps to confirm that the flashes seen by live stream-watchers were not just optical anomalies on camera sensors.
“I was really, really happy when this happened,” says Madiedo. He notes that the flash was quite bright and it struck the moon at a moment when the eclipse was not overly luminous itself, perhaps making the strike easier to detect.
Although he has not yet formally calculated an estimate for the size of the space rock that collided with the moon, Madiedo thinks it probably weighed about two kilograms and was roughly the size of a football.
“The combination of a darkened surface and a lot of people watching made it much more likely that the flash of impact was seen – and it reminds us that the solar system is still a very dynamic place,” says Robert Massey at the Royal Astronomical Society.

Maybe I'm just a fossil, but my understanding was that a piece
of debris flying through space was a "meteor", and a "meteorite"
was the debris left on the surface of a planet or planetoid after
the meteor had collided with the planet/planetoid. If so, then
right up to and including the flash of impact, the object is a
"meteor".

Looks like your right in regards to this:

Most of us probably have seen meteors or shooting stars. A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere. ... If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=meteorite+versus+meteor

[islander]

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Post by El Castor
I did. It was awesome. I expected this thing was being blown out of
proportion, but it definitely was not. The moon was not blood red, but
more of an orange -- and not a little teensy maybe slightly orange,
real orange. I've seen a lot of eclipses, but none like this. If you
missed it, not to worry, another will be along in 18 years. (-8

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse/?fbclid=IwAR1R4cmMRfvDBT_7hQPLz85BmZPd1MjjKeqW-huRjPIurYQjWsShhJE59rA
A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse
Observers of yesterday’s lunar eclipse were blessed with the first known sighting of a meteorite impact during such an event.
The so-called “super wolf blood moon” was eagerly watched by millions of people around the world, mostly via live streaming video. During the eclipse, some people noticed a tiny flash, a brief yellow-white speck, popping up on the lunar surface during the online broadcasts.
One Reddit user raised the possibility that this was a meteorite impact and others scoured eclipse footage for evidence of the event. A flash is visible in at least three different videos.
Jose Maria Madiedo at the University of Huelva in Spain has confirmed that the impact is genuine. For years, he and his colleagues have been hoping to observe a meteorite impact on the moon during a lunar eclipse, but the brightness of these events can make that very difficult – lunar meteorite impacts have been filmed before, but not during an eclipse.
On this occasion, Madiedo doubled the number of telescopes trained on different parts of the moon – from four to eight – in the hope of seeing an impact. “I had a feeling, this time will be the time it will happen,” says Madiedo.
After the eclipse, software automatically pinpointed a flash in imagery recorded by several of his telescopes. This helps to confirm that the flashes seen by live stream-watchers were not just optical anomalies on camera sensors.
“I was really, really happy when this happened,” says Madiedo. He notes that the flash was quite bright and it struck the moon at a moment when the eclipse was not overly luminous itself, perhaps making the strike easier to detect.
Although he has not yet formally calculated an estimate for the size of the space rock that collided with the moon, Madiedo thinks it probably weighed about two kilograms and was roughly the size of a football.
“The combination of a darkened surface and a lot of people watching made it much more likely that the flash of impact was seen – and it reminds us that the solar system is still a very dynamic place,” says Robert Massey at the Royal Astronomical Society.

Interesting, but not surprising. The meteor showers that we see
regularly on earth would indicate that there is a lot of stuff speeding
around out there and some of it would impact the moon and be more
visible during the eclipse. I wonder how many are detected on the dark
side when the moon is in a crescent phase.