Talk:Lunar eclipse

Please no sections about 'Blood Moon'

It is used as a nickname mainly for the total Lunar Eclipse. I have added its nickname as well as an invisible comment on lead. Wikiediter2029 (talk) 21:21, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

The only sources referring to a "blood moon" is the media. If you want references of its use in the media just do a search on it. The eclipse is a copper-red colour and not a blood red colour, despite how sensational the media prefers blood moon. ~2025-43423-41 (talk) 11:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Solar eclipses seen from the Moon

During two lunar eclipses in the last 70ish years, lunar probes have taken pictures of the Sun eclipsed by the Earth from the Moon. Be awesome to hunt these pictures down & add them with appropriate captions to this article. — Lentower (talk) 17:48, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 September 2025

Request: Add a proper citation or "[Citation Needed]" for the final sentence of the second paragraph of this article's introduction, the one that reads as "Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions." as it does not currently seem to have anything to support it. 84.70.233.192 (talk) 14:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Nubzor [T][C] 15:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I think there's a source there now, and one later on for another section that has the citations needed box in it. Might it be time to remove the citations needed warnings for those sections, and potentially the article itself? (Don't want to mess with something like that my own self, but figured I'd ping this talk section to see?) ~2026-82485-7 (talk) 16:34, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

lunar eclipse, selenenion

Legend to Photo "October 2014 lunar eclipse viewed from Minneapolis during sunrise on 8 October 2014. Both the Moon and Sun were visible at that time". Comment: The photos of the rising sun and moon going down show the same foreground, thus both show either sun or moon. Res Gerber (talk) 14:03, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Both photos are of the moon coming out of the eclipse, about one minute apart. AstroLynx (talk) 14:19, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

"Mesopotamians" section

The statement that "The ancient Mesopotamians believed that a lunar eclipse was when the Moon was being attacked by seven demons" seems to be impossible. Mesopotamia was a region around the size of France, spanning 5 modern countries countries, where writing first developed over 5 thousand years ago. Even if we consider "ancient" mesopotamia as pre-hellenistic, that would be a 3 thousand ish year timespan over which a ton of cultures flourished and collapsed. On top of that, given how often Mesopotamia was subject to invasions and internal violence... This is as absurd as saying "In Italy and Greece, between the Greek dark ages and today".

It also talks about a "king of mesopotamia", which isn't mentioned in the original source which just talks about kings. Mesopotamia was not a united kingdom for most of this period; it's not a united country NOW (tho most of it is in Iraq). Maybe this was about one of the periods where the region was unified, but the source doesn't mention that.

I'm sure Krupp who is a respected scholar just said "Mesopotamia" to make things simpler for a general audience (or he forgot what culture it was, which would have comedic value), but we should probably talk about which culture actually held this belief. Unless this is an insane case of a tradition being preserved for millenia across vastly different peoples, in which case that feels notable to cite and bring up? Quick google suggests this is a babylonian thing but I'm pretty bad at research.

Or at the very least say "in some ancient mesopotamian cultures" and stop talking about the king of mesopotamia.

Idkjustathing (talk) 12:49, 1 June 2026 (UTC)