Blood Moon: Flickr photo of the day

Down in the Caribbean’s Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T to the locals), sweet aromas of tropical plants waft on northeast trade winds, the temperature is mild, and the living is mostly easy. But on the night of April 14, there may have been a touch of apprehension in the air. The Moon turned an eerie shade of red, and that’s creepy.

Unlike a blue moon, which is actually a bonus moon in a month (occurring about every two to three years, hence the name) a red moon (blood moon if you want to sound scary) can happen any time there is a total eclipse. That’s because the dispersed light from all the Earth’s sunrises and sunsets falls on the face of the moon at the time known as totality. To read some scary stuff about “blood moons,” click here.

Photographer Giancarlo Lalsingh assembled this composite of the eclipse in Trinidad & Tobago.

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