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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

The combination of a full lunar eclipse coinciding with a sunrise -- Eastern Time Zone viewing -- Senelion

from ARTICLE on Weather & Astronomy for www.washingtonpost.com/ :

Spectacles on both horizons! In the eastern U.S., as the sun is rising (from the east) as the moon is setting (to the west), this presents a unique opportunity to observe a full lunar eclipse and sunrise at the same time. This rare coincidence is called a selenelion.
“Weather permitting, you could have a short window of roughly 2 to 9 minutes (depending on your location) with the possibility of simultaneously seeing the sun rising in the east while the eclipsed full moon is setting in the west,” writes Space.com.
In Washington, D.C., sunrise Wednesday morning (October 8, 2014) occurs at 7:11 a.m. – meaning both the eclipse and sunrise may be visible between roughly 7:11 a.m. and 7:16 a.m.
Watch for Uranus: Writes Slates Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait: “Uranus will be very close to the Moon during the eclipse, so I expect we’ll see some pretty cool pictures of that conjunction. Uranus is tiny, but it’ll appear as a bluish-green star less than a degree east of the Moon. That’ll make a pretty sight in binoculars, too.”

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