There are 3 celestial phenomena not to be missed in November this year, the first is that on the night of November 11, Saturn and Jupiter will orbit the moon, forming a "double star with the moon" landscape;
Secondly, around November 17, the Leo meteor shower will reach its maximum.
Finally, there will be a partial lunar eclipse on November 19, but this partial lunar eclipse will be very close to the state of a total lunar eclipse, which means that during this period, the moon will turn red, which is commonly known as the "blood moon".
In the past, people thought that "blood moon" meant ominous omens, so there is a saying "blood moon rises, demons appear". Ancient warlocks also believed that the red moon was a red moon and was the phase of yin to cold, and the occurrence of the blood moon usually brought about a catastrophic event. For example, when the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself, it was said that the sky at that time was a blood moon.
So the question is, how did the "Blood Moon" phenomenon come about? Does the appearance of the Blood Moon really mean that a catastrophe is coming?
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In fact, the saying that "the blood moon rises, the demon appears" is an association of the ancient people with the blood moon, due to the lack of observation instruments, so that the ancient people's astronomical research can only be a record, and can not explain its cause. However, our country is a country that pays attention to the "unity of heaven and man", that is, what happens in the sky corresponds to the events on the earth, so we will always blame some uncommon anomalies as human misfortunes.
For example, locust transit will bring greater losses to crops, but the ancients believed that locusts were punishment sent by heaven, so they could not be killed. Therefore, whenever the locusts cross the border, the local people will burn incense and pray to God.
Today we all know that the formation of locusts is a natural cause and has nothing to do with the gods. In fact, the same is true of the "blood moon", the formation of the blood moon has nothing to do with human misfortune, its formation is actually a very common astronomical phenomenon.
If we think of the Earth as the center of the solar system, then we will see that both the Moon and the Sun revolve around the Earth, but their orbits are not on the same plane, but there is a certain angle.
Only when the Moon and the Sun move to the orbital intersection at the same time, when the Earth, the Sun and the Moon are in the same plane, and the phenomenon of a solar or lunar eclipse occurs.
We know that the moon is a satellite that does not emit light on its own, and its light is mainly reflected by the sun's rays. When the sun, the earth, and the moon run to the same plane, and the earth is located in between, the large volume of the earth at this time will block the light that the sun hits the surface of the moon, and the moon will naturally be unable to reflect the light, so the moon will become black, forming a "partial lunar eclipse" or "total lunar eclipse".
Among them, the "blood moon" is a total lunar eclipse, of course, if it is a partial lunar eclipse close to a total lunar eclipse, the color may also appear red.
This is because, although the Earth blocks the light from the sun hitting the lunar surface, the Earth is more special because the Earth has an atmosphere, and the atmosphere on the Earth will also refract light, of which the red light frequency is the lowest and the wavelength is the longest, so the diffraction ability is the strongest. A part of the red photon is refracted into the universe by the Earth's atmosphere, and after some of them are received by the moon, the moon will reflect it back to the earth, at this time, in our view, the moon will appear red, which is what people call "blood moon".
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Judging from the reasons for the formation of the blood moon, the "blood moon" is a simple astronomical phenomenon, which has nothing to do with human misfortune. Even scientists were able to calculate the relationship between the next blood moon based on calculations.
More importantly, in May this year, in fact, there was already a "blood moon" in China, but nothing happened this year. Moreover, the ancients said that locusts were sent by heaven to punish mankind, but now that we have eliminated locusts, no disaster has happened.
Therefore, there is no need to associate the blood moon with the catastrophic event, this is just the ancients based on limited observational knowledge, linking two things that are not related to each other, rather than causation.
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When the blood moon occurred in the first half of this year, China was not the best place to observe, and only the closest to the eastern part could see some lunar eclipses.
The lunar eclipse of November 19 is the best observation position for the eastern region of China.
According to experts, the partial lunar eclipse will begin at 2 p.m. on the same day, the moon will enter the shadow of the earth at 5:03 p.m., and wait until 8:06 p.m. to end the penumbra eclipse.
Although it is a partial lunar eclipse, 97% of the lunar surface will be covered by the earth's shadow, so a red moon will also appear, and the process of the blood moon can be seen in the eastern region of China.
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