The sky is going to drizzle biological liquor. Amphibians will fall from boiling black clouds. Locusts will eat our crops and regurgitate toxic grains—forcing all of humanity underground. Forever.
Don’t look at me like that! Haven’t you heard?!?! The super blood moon is approaching! A full lunar eclipse occurs on September 27, 2015—the fourth (and final) event of a lunar tetrad.
Paula Graham alerted me of this potential Earth annihilating event, so this post goes out to Paula—a fellow photographer—and writer. Better follow her blog! The world is going to Hell in a handbasket and there’s not much time left!
September’s lunar eclipse can be seen from:
- US (east coast full visibility)
- Canada
- Central / South America
On September 28: the lunar eclipse can be seen from the following locations:
- Europe (before sunrise)
- South/East Asia
- Africa
- Arctic
The lunar eclipse officially begins on September 28 (12:11 AM UTC)
**Click Here For Lunar Eclipse Information**
However…
…That is not all!
The moon is going to go all super-duper on us, which will cause Earth to explode. Yes! Ohhh Yes! At the time of the lunar eclipse—the moon will be at perigee: a special place in its orbit that brings it relatively close to Earth (225,804 miles / 405,504 km). The previous “super blood moon” occurred in 1982, and if you remember correctly, Earth, indeed, exploded.
The universe can not, will not, and shall not allow both to occur at the same time, so…something bad needs to happen. All the prophets say so. All the mystical books say so. And I say so. So there!

Yeah! What a bunch of maggot mash!
My crystal ball tells me nothing is going to happen. The lunar eclipse will pass by and guess what? That’s it. No megaquakes. No hellish fires. No amphibians. No locusts…which is a shame! I like locusts.
**Keep in Mind** A full moon—no matter the distance—will always appear the same size. Photographs can reveal a sight difference, but you can’t visually discern it (with you naked eye). The moon can appear rather fat IF it’s near the horizon, but that’s caused by an optical illusion, which doesn’t represent reality.
I see that look on your face! Don’t believe me? Alright. Hold on a second.
Take a look at the image below this sentence:
The two moons in the photograph are not quite full, but it still illustrates my point: the size difference is not much. You’ll never visually notice this size difference: every full moon pretty much looks the same. There. I said it. Feel free to hate me. I’m not sure on the exact distances represented in the photograph. Sorry.
The supermoon will look like any other full moon. Sorry (no, I’m not).
If blood moons are semi-bullshit, then what gives with the freakin’ red moon at the beginning of this post? I’m glad you asked! I altered the color of an existing lunar image and heavily saturated it (among other digital trickery). The image is fake and was not taken during a legit lunar eclipse.
Any full lunar eclipse can produce a red faced moon, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it a “blood moon”, considering the red hue is mainly caused by local pollution. Dust particles reflect short wavelength light (blue), but allows longer wavelengths through (red). This same effect explains why sunsets are red.
A red totality is never guaranteed! I seen plenty of regular ol’ lunar eclipses and none of them were red.
**Keep in Mind** A typical full lunar eclipse can last up to 3+ hours. Totality usually lasts more than an hour. If you plan on photographing the entire lunar eclipse: be prepared to spend a decent amount of time outside.
Well…it was nice knowing everyone! Smoke ’em if you got ’em, and I’ll see you all in the netherworld. I’ll be by the water cooler.
Despite what you say I’ll be putting my affairs in order. This should take roughly 4 minutes, I have very few affairs to order. By the way, the netherworld can’t be all that bad if there’s water coolers.
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I have no affairs, so I’m patiently waiting for doomsday! Haha.
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My hand basket is out front ready to go! Hopefully C.E.R.N. won’t blow us up first! 😉
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I hope C.E.R.N creates a black hole — an interesting death — is a noble death…that’s what the samurai believed, right? Something like that.
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I’ll put on my rose tinted glasses then I’ll see a blood moon; everyday, in fact! Yeah, that link you supplied is cool and gives a countdown of Armageddon! Wow, thanks!!
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You have rose tinted glasses? I’m jealous!
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Most of the poets I know do –especially the ones who tend to write dark. Delving in dark subjects can be draining, so we put our rose tinted glasses on and see the world in a healthy glow for a bit. Yeah, we also are great bullshitters, too! 😜
Your spider in your video was shy! Must’ve been a female who was playing hard to get with you. Lol. I have a friend who’s a birdwatcher, and it takes a lot of patience! I imagine that’s the same with your photography. That confuses me, cuz you’ve said you’re not very patient?
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I need to get rose tinted glasses.
That yellow crab spider is pretty shy — and it’s still lounging on top of that flower! Haha.
I’m punctual, which causes me to be impatient. I hope that makes sense. I used to take images of birds, but you know what? Birds are assholes! So…I stopped photographing them. For now.
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You’d look cool in them.
Is bird poop the reason you stopped photographing them?
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Don’t encourage me! Haha
Birds are judgmental, but I don’t necessarily blame them. Mourning doves — no matter how nice you are — don’t care to build friendships. They are too worried about being shot in the face with a gun. So they assume everyone is packing heat and looking to blast them out of the sky. I mean…do I look like a dangerous individual? (don’t answer that question).
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Lol. Ok, I’ll be kind.
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After a blue moon..now a wonderful red one…interesting info and I may get up early , camera in hand..if I am very, very keen..but…hmmm upon reflection, might as well just take a picture of a lovely full moon and colour it reddish!!! Who well know! The above will only happen if I manage to dodge the exploding earth and hover somewhere instead. Thank you my friend of the night.
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No Problem! I hope the clouds don’t screw you over — I have a feeling there will be heavy overcast in New England! Haha.
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YESSSSS! I am so effing excited. And disappointed that blood moons aren’t as pretty as your red moon up top.
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My horrific blood moon photograph was actually taken with a blue filter. Go figure.
I have a feeling the clouds are going to screw me over. Clouds hate me.
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Dumb clouds!!!
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Time to retreat to the asbestos-riddled atomic bunker. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this plan.
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Asbestos gives you superpowers, so I wouldn’t mind shaking-up in an atomic bunker.
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