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21 January 2019 Full Moon, 100% lit

A super blood wolf moon

A total lunar eclipse, at perigee, in January, so the press got to stack every name at once.

"Supermoon" is a modern coinage, "blood moon" describes the red of a total eclipse, and "wolf moon" is the traditional name for January's full moon. All three were true simultaneously, which is rarer than any of them alone and much rarer than the coverage suggested.

Date
21 January 2019
Moon computed for
05:00 local time, UTC
Phase
Full Moon
Illuminated
100%

Source: NASA eclipse catalogue (opens in a new tab)

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