Fun fact: September 13, 2015 will be a partial solar eclipse, and September 28, 2015 will be a total lunar eclipse, (aka "blood moon"), where the moon appears red because of dispersed light from the Earth.
"This lunar eclipse will be particularly rare, because it is a harvest moon lunar eclipse, taking place also on the day of the closest supermoon of 2015". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2015_lunar_eclipse).
Query to an astronomer: When is the last time this sequence of events occurred - a solar eclipse, followed shortly by a harvest moon lunar eclipse, which is also a supermoon, which is also the fourth moon of a blood moon tetrad?
Apparently this happens about every 600 years, see http://www.watchmansview.com/Blood_Red_Moons.html
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