Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight!

The Americas should get an excellent view of the “Blood Moon” tonight. This will be a full lunar eclipse, which means the Moon enters fully into the Earth's shadow. The eclipse starts around 2 a.m. EDT (11 p.m. PDT), with the effects most visible around 3 a.m. EDT (12 a.m. PDT).

As with all eclipses, there's various predictions going around about what's supposed to happen afterwards, everything from ascension to doomsday. There's also people pointing on that this lunar eclipse, as well the 3 to follow, all occur on Jewish holidays. Since the Jewish holidays are based upon a lunar calendar, certain holidays always happen on full moons. Lunar eclipses also always occur on full moons, so the fact that the eclipses and the Jewish holidays line up doesn't exactly seem like an incredible coincidence to me.

Happy moon-gazing!