So last night was lunar eclipse-blood moon, at least for the western hemisphere. Did anyone stay up late or get up early to catch that beauty? Here in central time, I went outside at around 1:30am. The eclipse was only about half way. But I was dazzled by this rainbow effect surrounding the whole moon!
It didn't even look real, it looked like a hallucination. The rainbow effect kept shifting and changing like the northern lights. But after a few seconds, it hurt my eyes and gave me a headache. I had to look away! I went inside and waited to about 2am, when it was supposed to be a full blood moon. I guess I was still a few minutes too early. The moon was only about 95% covered in the earths shadow and on one side it still had a sliver of that rainbow effect.
But even though the rainbow effect was smaller and limited to one side - it still gave me a headache! I gave up. I went to sleep with a headache and I still had a headache when I woke up! I was paranoid that I injured myself, maybe I'm not supposed to look at a lunar eclipse? But every time I search online I keep reading "a lunar eclipse is safe to look at" and that only the solar eclipse is dangerous to your eyesight. Or is that false information? Seriously, did I hurt myself? I'm hoping it was just a headache because my brain can't focus on the optical illusion.
I can't find anymore info on that rainbow effect. My searches keep bringing up "solar eclipse corona" instead. And I couldn't find an image on google, but that's probably just a limitation of technology.
So, does anyone know more about this rainbow effect dancing around the blood moon?
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