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)