Blood Moon 4:30am Buenos Aires

Okay, my picture isn´t as clear as some I´ve seen, but I took it and I´m proud of it!  This was the Blood Moon at 4:30am this morning.  (and at 4:30 it is amazing that the photo even got taken!)

And that white blur on the left is NOT a flying saucer.  I think it is the morning star which is actually the planet Venus.


Here´s some more info I found:

Speaking with ABC News Digital, NASA scientist Michelle Thaller explained the phenomenon.

“The moon is going to line up in just the right angle to pass through the shadow of the Earth,” she said.“That's going to block the sun’s light from reaching the moon, and that means we’ll actually see the earth’s shadow creep across the full moon. At the deepest part of the eclipse, the moon does actually look red, it really does.”

“This is happening because the sunlight that’s reaching the moon is just the sunlight bending through the earth’s atmosphere,” she added. “The same reason that a sunset is red, the earth’s atmosphere scatters away blue light but lets red light through.”

Here´s some of the information Elder Brady shared with us at family home evening about the Blood Moons :

Scripture references:

In the book of Joel, God says there will be "wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire…the sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord."

In Acts, the Apostle Peter repeats that verse from Joel. And the book of Revelation says that during the Great Tribulation, "the moon will become like blood."

Connections to Jewish Holy Days in History and other events

Blood moons are set to appear in April 2014, on Passover, and then again in September 2014 during the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot.

The timing is the same for 2015 -- a total of four blood moons, all appearing on Jewish feast days.

In the past, the rare appearance of four blood moons on these feast days has coincided with major events for Israel and the Jewish people.

In 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. Columbus also discovered America, which became a safe haven for the Jewish people.

For instance, in 1948, Israel was reborn as a nation.

In 1967, Israel won the Six-Day War and recaptured Jerusalem.