Sunday, September 27, 2015

Lunar Eclipse - Bloodmoon

Here is the "official" write up...
On September 28, 2015, a rare Total Lunar Eclipse of a Super Full Moon will be visible from most of North America, South America, Europe, West Asia and parts of Africa. The full Moon of September 27/28 is a Supermoon – the Moon will be closest to the Earth. Or at its perigee, as it turns into a full Moon. A rising Super Full Moon can look larger and brighter to spectators on Earth. Total eclipses of Super Full Moons are rare. According to NASA, they have only occurred 5 times in the 1900s – in 1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982. After the September 27/ 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse, a Supermoon eclipse will not happen again for another 18 years, until October 8, 2033.

So, what do we do? Go sit at the park and wait for the moon to rise, to watch it. Complete with iPad app to show where the moon is in the sky (because it hadn't come up over the horizon yet)...
And while I always hope that my pictures will come out looking something like this...
They don't.
This is the only pic I got that even turned out...
And then, when we got home, I tried to take more pictures through the telescope lens...

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