The action starts on April 15th when the full Moon passes through the amber shadow of Earth, producing a midnight eclipse visible across North America. So begins a lunar eclipse tetrad—a series of 4 consecutive total eclipses occurring at approximately six month intervals. The total eclipse of April 15, 2014, will be followed by another on Oct. 8, 2014, and another on April 4, 2015, and another on Sept. 28 2015.
"The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA," says longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/27mar_tetrad/Joel 2:31 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Acts 2:20 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Revelation 6:12 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Two of the tedtad already happened on Jєωιѕн Holidays in 2014, now in 2015 we can expect the last two, also on Jєωιѕн Holidays.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• A lunar eclipse will turn the moon a burnt reddish orange
• This blood moon will be the size of a super moon, 5.3% larger than the last blood moon
• It will be the second in a sequence of four -- called a tetrad
• Tetrads can be rare; for a 300-year stretch, there were none
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(CNN) -- Blood moon, Act II, opens soon in the heavens near you. And it will be bigger than Act I.
If you live in the western half of the United States, you'll have a front-row seat on a lunar eclipse that will turn the moon a burnt reddish orange for about an hour Wednesday, creating the second blood moon in relatively short succession.
The full eclipse will start at 6:25 a.m. ET, NASA says, and last until 7:24 a.m. ET.
Because it happens right after the perigee, the closest point to Earth in the moon's orbit, this blood moon will be nearly the size of a super moon -- appearing 5.3% larger than the previous blood moon on April 15.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/03/tech/innovation/second-blood-moon/ Lunar eclipse in a minute
It will be the second in a sequence of four -- called a tetrad -- that are occurring in roughly six-month intervals. The next one will appear on April 4, 2015