Tagged: Lunar eclipse

  Imperfect conditions, imperfect equipment, but happy start! (Isn’t that a typically human sentiment too?) And it’s back to God’s drawing board…. UPDATE: And here, an hour later, is what I can report, as the partial eclipse evolves: Well, the total phase, i.e., the real blood moon, has been achieved, just as Thales’ descendants predicted. (Take that, Neil deGrasse Tyson and the rest...

If you have a constitutional preference for permanent things over transient things — which is to say, if you have a soul that tilts toward the ancient rather than the modern sensibility — then you may already know that the night of Friday, July 27th, 2018 is a special one for sky-watchers. For this is the night of a lunar eclipse, and even...