Rain and cloud hampered sky watchers to catch super blue blood moon

KUALA LUMPUR: Rain has hampered the vision of hundreds of people who had gathered at the National Planetarium tonight to witness the Super Blue Blood Moon, a phenomenon that occurred after 152 years.
Due to the rain since in the evening, the rare celestial sight could not be seen as the clouds had covered the moon.
Despite the uncalled situation, the Planetarium managed to present the visitors a live feed session from Nasa's Griffith Observatory for about 30 minutes and sighting of the eclipse from Langkawi's national observatory for them to witness the phenomenon.
Among the visitors were Balqis Mohamad, 28, who visited the Planetarium to see the eclipse.
"I was a bit disappointed not being able to see the phenomenon as it rained, but it is something that should not be missed as it is a rare phenomenon," said the lass who came alone to the Planetarium.
The Super Blue Blood Moon phenomenon, which was last observed on March 31, 1866, is a combination of Supermoon, Bluemoon and Bloodmoon phenomena.
Supermoon is when the moon is positioned closest to earth, 14% bigger and 30% brighter.
As for the total lunar eclipse, which is called blood moon, occurs when the earth sits between the sun and the moon, forcing sunlight to pass through the atmosphere.
The atmosphere then filters out most of the blue colour light hence, leaving the orange-red hue on the moon.
In Malaysia, the eclipse phase of the moon began at 7.48pm until 11.11pm while the total lunar eclipse started at 8.51pm before reaching its maximum phase at 9.29pm and ends at 10.07pm. — Bernama