There were Christmas full moons in 1901 and 1920. The next Christmas full moon will happen in 2034 with another in 2053.

The relative brightness of Venus and Jupiter make the event easily seen by the naked eye or binoculars and is being labeled by some Internet-savvy astronomers as the same Star of Bethlehem phenomenon the magi saw some 2,000 years ago.

The event marked the first supermoon total lunar eclipse since 1982, and the last until 2033- and it was visible to potentially billions of people across the Western Hemisphere and parts of Europe, Africa and Asia.

The moon will pass through Earth's shadow in a dazzling total lunar eclipse on Sunday, Sept. 27, and early Monday, Sept. 28, creating a blood moon during lunar perigee. A so-called supermoon lunar eclipse.

"You are not taking any big risks whatsoever if you say in the future in this two-year period of time from 2014-2015 something important is going to happen in Israel."

Historically, a tetrad also occurred in 1493, while the Jews were being expelled from Spain. Another tetrad occurred in 1949, soon after the state of Israel was founded. The last tetrad happened in 1967, during the Six-Day War between Arabs and Israelis.

... revealed mountains as tall as the Rockies, and an absence of craters — discoveries that, to their delight, baffled scientists working on NASA’s New Horizons mission and provided punctuation for a journey nine and a half years in the making.

This convergence is known as a planetary conjunction - which is often cited as a possible scientific explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, the sign in the Gospel of Matthew that drew the Magi to the birth of Jesus.

According to NASA, the total phase of the eclipse will only last about five minutes, making it the shortest lunar eclipse of the century. In the West, the total eclipse will begin at 4:58 a.m. Pacific Time and end 5 minutes later.

The theater crowd at the premiere exploded in applause when Dennis Prager and John Hagee made the point that any nation that turns its back on Israel will be a loser.

The deep shadow formed first in the North Atlantic and then swept up into the Arctic, ending at the North Pole.

Many Christian leaders around the globe agree — the United States is at a very pivotal point in world and biblical history with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-contended March 3 speech before Congress at the nation’s capital.

President Barack Obama rebuked House Speaker John Boehner for inviting Netanyahu to speak to Congress. The President and some other Democrats will not attend the speech, causing an unprecedented disconnect between the U.S. and Israel.

Mark Biltz, author of the book Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs, says that biblical prophecies about Israel standing alone in the End Times may be coming to pass. Signs in the heavens could also be a warning of things to come. Next month, near the time of Israel's vital elections and the Passover season there will be a solar eclipse and then a blood moon. He says, "God is trying to tell us something about a divine appointment.”

"Four Blood Moons combines Scripture, science, history and big-screen live action spanning centuries, including previous similar lunar occurrences and the earth-shaking changes around them."

It can be seen with the naked eye in dark, clear skies. To spot Comet Lovejoy, just look in the direction of Orion, Taurus and the Pleiades, high in the southeast sky.

Size:. . . between 400-900 meters (1300-2900 feet) across. That’s big; by comparison, the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, damaging some 1,500 buildings and injuring some 500 people, is was estimated to be one twentieth that size.