Baltimore Dubs Orange Hued Lunar Eclipse The Orioles Moon
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There was a celestial phenomenon which happened Wednesday morning that coincides with the success happening in Baltimore sports.
Mike Schuh reports what was known as the blood moon may have a more appropriate new name.
At around quarter after five o'clock, the full lunar eclipse starts out. The sunny part is pure white in the night sky.
The "sun is shining light on Earth, thereby casting a shadow of the Earth into space; the moon moves around the Earth," Wendy Ackerman from the Maryland Science Center explained. "Thereby the Earth is blocking sunlight from the moon, making it look dark."
An hour in, a slither of white appears and then the color starts to fill in the dark part.
"All of the sun rises at that particular instance, they're bringing red light through the edge of the Earth," Ackerman said. "That red is being cast indirectly on the moon and gives it that reddish hue."
That red hue is typically called a blood moon--until now. Orioles fans see this celestial coincidence and say that it's time for a new name.
Clearly, you're looking at an Oriole moon.
Schuh: "But in Baltimore we're going to call it..."
Ackerman: "The Orioles moon."
Schuh: "Because it was orange, really."
Ackerman: "It was orange."
A local named Ron Stantz on Twitter goes even further to let us all always remember that from now on, here, in this town, blood moon is out. Welcome Orioles moon.
Open your calendars. Sept. 28, 2015 is the next time you're going to see a blood moon, ahem, an Oriole moon here in Baltimore. This time, it will happen before midnight.
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