FENOMENA!!!!! SUPERMOON, BLUE MOON, TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN INDONESIA 31 JANUARI 2018

NASA identifies the rare phenomenon that occurred January 31, 2018: supermoon, blue moon, and total lunar eclipse / This total lunar eclipse is called rare because it coincides with the phenomenon of 'supermoon' and 'blue moon'.

The US space agency (NASA) named the eclipse phenomenon that will happen later tonight with the name 'Super Blue Blood Moon'.

January 31 became a rare momentum for three simultaneous lunar events. NASA identified three phenomena in the form of supermoon, blue moon, and total lunar eclipse. This event is awaited everyone around the world because it promises beautiful moon sighting.

The moon on the morning of January 31 will become a supermoon. This event to call the Moon that was in perigee, the point closest to Earth. That is, the moon will be about 14 percent brighter than usual, according to NASA.

Supermoon is then called the blue moon. Why? Because, supermoon today is the second full moon in January.

This full moon is usually separated by 29 days. Each calendar month only has one full moon. So, if it happens twice like that on January 31 later, this event is commonly referred to as the blue moon. Blue moon phenomenon is also rare because the average occurs two and a half years.

"The term blue moon means two full moons a month, but it depends on where you are," said Fred Espenak, emeritus scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to Wired.

But what really makes this supermoon and blue moon spectacular is the fact that this phenomenon coincides with other lunar events today: the total lunar eclipse.

This means that supermoon and blue moon will pass through the shadow (umbra) of the earth. So, when a total lunar eclipse, the moon will be reddish or orange like copper so given the nickname of blood moon.

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A supermoon is a full moon that stays at the closest distance to the Earth at the elliptic orbit. It will appear bigger by 14% and brighter by 30% than usually due to this as NASA reported.

Indonesian people can also enjoy this sky phenomenon at night if the weather is sunny. BMKG recorded the peak of this event occurred at 20:29 pm; 21.29 WITA; and 22.29 WIT.

This moment is rare because the three lunar events have not happened again since 150 years ago. This phenomenon was recorded last time appeared on March 31, 1866.

If the weather is sunny, observations can be viewed ideally and without tools from the border of Central Java and East Java to areas west of Sumatra.

In addition, the ideal location to observe the phenomenon of this supermoon is Observatory Boscha (Lembang), Thousand Island, Ancol, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Planetarium, Museum Fatahilah, Kampung Betawi, Setu Babakan, and Bukit Tinggi. Also observations were made at 21 hilal observation points.

A most beautiful surprise in Indonesia because of the occurrence as well as the supermoon and also the unexpected blue moon, night on 31 January 2018 into a beautiful night to look toward the sky, but if the sky does not cloud, because at some point the atmosphere of the sky does not sit, in my location is the indonesia field which the sky is not support me to see the phenomenon of beauty of sky which not necessarily will come in next year. There is also for those who are Islamic they do a lunar eclipse prayer that means how special it comes the phenomenon. Hopefully this is a gift for good for years to come in this world.

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