We enter the last phase of Montreal summer: It is a little less hot, the children return to school and corn and sunflowers color Quebec in green and gold.
September arrives and, with him, theAt full moon in September, called the corn moon (because it is the peak of the harvest of sweet corn in North America).
And, in addition to this celestial event, There will be a total lunar eclipse -who will change the color of the full moon to red …
The blood moon
When we talk of a total eclipse of the moon, Some rays of the sun still reach the star, passing through the atmosphere of the earth. The rays of the sun with short waves, blue and green, are diffused and lost while the long wave rays – red – reach the surface of the moon.
Then appears a large copper moon which, according to your moodis where a good omen, or something vaguely scary that one hides behind the curtains drawn. The pagan religions see the eclipse as the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new period, the ancient Babylonians a prediction of the death of a king, but it is above all considered as a period of transformation and reflection.
The red color of the moon during this event gave it the name of “blood moon”, or Blood Moon in English.
How do we see her?
The phenomenon of red moon Appears when the eclipse is total and in Montreal, it will be on the night of September 7 to 8, 2025.
To see it, it will also be necessary that the sky is clear at this time -some flakes are scheduled for the moment, so we will have to wait and plan to watch late to see it Red moon…
In Montreal, there is a lot of light pollution and to see the blood moon, we will have to find the places where the sky is most clear … We have 3 places here;
- Bellevue Observatory
- Outremont belvedere
- Botanical garden and planetarium
Good blood moon!