April 4, 2015
Sticky Fingers 511 Bryne Drive
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Thank you to GeoWyrm, Landsharkz, Geocaching Québec/Québec Caching, CachingContainers, Cachemporium, Cache Advance, Ratherbecaching and Space Coast Geocaching for donating prizes.
Join us and perhaps you could win prizes at the event! Juicepig and I are going night caching after the event, you're welcome to join us!
Please log your will attend with the number in your party so we can make the appropriate table reservations.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the earth passes between the sun and the moon. This blocks the sun’s rays from reflecting off the moon as normal. However, some of the sun’s rays curve around the earth causing the moon to appear red during a total eclipse.
April 4, 2015 marks the third total lunar eclipse in a series of four total lunar eclipses with no partial lunar eclipses in between, each six months (or six full moons) apart. This event is called a lunar tetrad. The two prior eclipses in this tetrad occurred on April 15, 2014 and October 8, 2014. The fourth and final will be on September 28, 2015. There have been/will be 8 tetrads between 2001 and 2100 BUT this particular tetrad coincides with two important Jewish holidays, Passover and Tabernacles.
This phenomenon of four consecutive blood moons coinciding with Jewish feast days has only occurred ten times since 1 AD and only three times since 1492 AD. The three times since 1492 are as follows: Tetrad of 1493-1494 Tetrad of 1949-1950 Tetrad of 1967-1968
Cue the end days chatter:
"I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. (Joel 2:30-31, NIV)"
"The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. (Acts 2:20, NIV)"
"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red. (Revelation 6:12, NIV)"