(Ilustration: Stages of total lunar eclipse in Universal Time (GMT), and found here).

A lunar eclipse tomorrow morning to break the horror of political life down here on the flatlands of the mountains we have to cross every f*cking day. If you get up early — pre-dawn — here in California, you’ll be able to catch the bloom at 4:11 (substract seven from the times in the GMT image above) and take it from there.

Via Space.com this afternoon:

The total lunar eclipse will begin at 4:47 a.m. EDT (0847 GMT) and end at 9:50 a.m. EDT (1350 GMT), with peak totality — the “blood moon” stage — occurring at 7:16 a.m. EDT (1116 GMT).
If it is daytime in your viewing location, you will have to watch webcasts of the eclipse to see it at its best.

During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow falls across the moon’s face as our planet moves between the moon and the sun. In a total lunar eclipse, the moon gets completely covered by Earth’s shadow as the moon and sun line up on exact opposite sides of our planet. So what does it look like and what can skywatchers at home expect?

Well, for one, a lunar eclipse is “weird and it’s beautiful and unusual,” NASA science visualizer Ernie Wright, who takes scientific data to create animations and other visuals to help communicate complex science concepts, told Space.com.
“A lunar eclipse is such a spectacular visual event that you get caught up in it. During the partial phases, you see the moon sort of getting slowly eaten away, over the course of maybe an hour, an hour and a half.”

“And then suddenly,” Wright added, “it’s quite a bit darker, but it’s also this deep red color. And it’s a chance for you to sort of think about your place in the cosmos … spending just a little bit of time thinking about how amazing that is and how cool it is, and you are in a very specific place to be able to see it.”

One of the most striking visual features of a lunar eclipse is the red color, as Wright mentioned.
“During a total lunar eclipse, during totality, the moon turns this copper red color,” which is how this phenomenon got the nickname “blood moon.”
Totality describes the time during a total lunar eclipse that the moon is completely in shadow.

Time is of the essence:

Now, while totality for the 2021 total lunar eclipse on May 26 will last less than 15 minutes, lunar eclipses are quite lengthy compared to solar eclipses because, Wright put it simply, “the Earth’s shadow is so much wider than the moon’s shadow,” as, during a solar eclipse, the moon gets between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow on Earth.

Meanwhile, back to the bullshit.

Let’s see, for one: ‘A portion of a memo cited by former Attorney General William Barr as a reason not to pursue obstruction of justice charges against former President Donald Trump was released Monday night, but the Justice Department said it is appealing a judge’s order to disclose the rest of it.‘

For two: ‘Manhattan’s district attorney has convened the grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former president Donald Trump, other executives at his company or the business itself should prosecutors present the panel with criminal charges, according to two people familiar with the development.‘

For three: ‘House Republican leaders have condemned incendiary remarks from GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene five days after she first publicly compared Capitol Hill mask rules to the Holocaust, amid a wave of criticism from Republican and conservative critics as well as Jewish groups aimed at the Georgia congresswoman and the party leaders’ silence.‘

For four: ‘The United States’ top health official called Tuesday for a swift follow-up investigation into the coronavirus’s origins amid renewed questions about whether the virus jumped from an animal host into humans in a naturally occurring event or escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.‘

And on and fucking on…with that shit, fly me away:

“And play among the stars…”

(Illustration out front: Image of “super blue blood moon” above LA Jan. 31, 2018, and found here).