Author: Rumana Reza
Still, I can remember those childhood days when I
observed the solar eclipse with an X-Ray Paper, watched comet in the evening
sky with my Mamony (mom) and Bapi (dad), witnessed meteor, saw lunar eclipse
many times with our binocular. Neither me, nor my parents, never my grandparents
saw blood moon in the sky or read on the newspaper about it.
After 2010, the "blood moon" concept became
familiar in mainstream reporting. In recent years, the media have been trying
to establish that the blood moon has an ancient history with Inca people, the
Babylonians etc. and claiming of its re-occurrence since early 20th century,
though we did not read or notice such stories before 2010. "Italian
astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli calculated that the frequency of lunar tetrads
varies over centuries. Some have several lunar tetrads, while others do
not have any. For example, the years between 1582 and 1908 did not have any
tetrads, whereas the next 250 years—from 1909 to 2156—will have 17
tetrads."
(Source: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/blood-moon.html)
Yesterday September 7, 2025 from Chittagong, Bangladesh, I
captured these mysterious images of the Blood-moon. I wonder, is it really just
a simple lunar eclipse what we have learned before or is it beyond that definition?
Photo: Evolution of the moon (Zoomed view of the original images)
from 12:22 AM -12:27AM, September 7,2025 (Bangladesh Local Time) Copyright©️Rumana
Reza,2025
Here we can observe an interesting fact -whenever the
moon turns spiky, huge debris or particles are detected; and without spikes,
surrounding of the moon is just plain dark. In addition, at one point, we can
see a tiny shiny greenish spot on the moon surface.
We have always seen the moon with a soft sweet light
with round plain surface. In the eyes of NASA and other space agencies, either
the moon is caught as an x-ray report or so similar to the usual AI view where
the moon has no variation in features. But look at these photos! Have you ever
seen this kind of appearance of the moon before? One minute, the calm moon
looks like throwing unknown bloody type of things, but the next minute it
becomes quiet like a volcano after eruption. Though an explosion or volcano,
whatever you say, is not seen to happen on the whole earth's surface, the moon
hits differently! It seems the whole moon's surface is unstable, and an
explosion is going on. Just within five minutes such transformation is
incredible!
Photo: Original pictures captured by Rumana Reza
(Author)
According to NASA, " During lunar eclipses,
mission controllers shut down most instruments on NASA's solar-powered Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to conserve energy while it's cut off from its
source of power but leave active one instrument—called Diviner—that can watch
how the lunar surface responds to the rapid change in temperature caused by a
lunar eclipse."(Source: https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/)
During lunar eclipse, NASA's spacecraft might have some
limitations, but what about all those giant telescopes? James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST), world's largest telescope is designed to observe the universe,
stars but not for the blood moon - sounds so strange and funny! Decades
after decades, they have been researching about the space with high quality
equipment and technologies but the output on simple lunar eclipse is not
significant. But at Chittagong, in Bangladesh, a simple mobile camera can
capture such images of the moon! MashaAllah. It proves that the sky of
Bangladesh is best to observe the space, an ordinary balcony is better than any
observatory center or even better than the satellites, and a simple mobile
camera is more powerful than Hubble Telescope and blah blah blah!
We don't know yet the sea world and beneath the sea,
but NASA is busy to explore the Mars! Other space agencies are also engaged to
discover milky ways, black holes etc.! We can't forecast the natural disasters
on earth, but our scientists can calculate the blood moon calendar till 2156! I
can't find any logic in the gap between our knowledge about the earth and the
prediction power of modern scientists for the outer space; my dear readers, do
you find any? But the matching between the space theory of the ancient people
and present intellectuals seems logical. Ancient civilizations had high
technological knowledge and were so much advanced before collapsing. Our
civilization, on the other hand, is not yet that high but running through the process.
Both ancient people and present media value the blood moon with the same tone!
Interesting! Point to be noted, there was no blood moon when our civilization
was not modernized!
Copyright©️Rumana Reza,2025
