Cayman News Service

Blood moon wlll be visible from the Cayman Islands

(CNS): The final lunar eclipse in a series of blood moons that started in April last year should be one to watch out for later this month, the Cayman Islands Astronomical Society has said. The eclipse will start on Sunday 27 September a little after sunset and sky-watchers in Cayman will be well placed for a great view of the five hour long eclipse. However, not everyone is looking forward to the astronomical phenomenon, as some claim it will bring a massive world-ending meteor strike.

Some Christian groups believe that because this is the fourth consecutive lunar eclipse since April 2014, it is part of a “tetrad”, which foretells the end of time. However, scientists at NASA, the organisation which keeps a close eye on near earth objects such as asteroids, said that none are on course to collide with Earth for several hundred years.

But with the doomsayers managing to convince a number of people in the United States at least, the space agency released a statement reassuring the public that the world is likely to carry on spinning on Monday 28 September.

“NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small,” said a spokesperson. “In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years.”

Christian ministers John Hagee and Mark Biltz claim the consecutive lunar eclipses indicate the end of earth as described in the Bible in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.

Scientists, however, say that the blood moon is a spectacular natural phenomena caused by the reflection of sunlight on the Earth’s atmosphere, which is red to the naked eye.