{"id":7207,"date":"2018-01-31T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/31\/upstate-professors-gear-up-for-rare-super-blue-blood-moon\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:00:29","slug":"upstate-professors-gear-up-for-rare-super-blue-blood-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/upstate-professors-gear-up-for-rare-super-blue-blood-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate professors gear up for rare &#8216;Super Blue Blood Moon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35413\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35413\" class=\"wp-image-35413 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/David-moffett-1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 450px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 450\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Moffett, Department of Physics<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman physics professor David Moffett was master of ceremonies at Paladin Stadium during the total solar eclipse last August. Now, in the waning days of January, he spoke to a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/story\/37388937\/upstate-professors-gear-up-for-rare-super-blue-blood-moon\">Fox Carolina<\/a><\/strong> reporter about the lunar &#8220;trifecta&#8221; where a blue moon, supermoon and blood moon happen all at once. About the rare convergence, Moffett said, &#8220;The last time it happened over the United States was about 150 years ago.&#8221; To see video footage of the celestial spectacle from multiple telescopes, visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K5PtajTZ88U\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman physics professor David Moffett was master of ceremonies at Paladin Stadium during the total solar eclipse last August. Now, in the waning days of January, he spoke to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}