Monday, January 21, 2019

Super Full Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse

This is some information I dug up on the internet...

Last night was a Super Full moon ... meaning that the path of the full moon was closest to the earth.

The Indians call it a Wolf moon... because it is the first full moon of the year and the wolves come out.

There was also a Lunar Eclipse... the Sun, Earth and Moon line up and Earth's shadow darkens the Moon surface.

It was also a Blood moon... because of particulates in the air (or was it atmosphere?)  Earth's shadow casts a red tint to the moon.

We went out onto the porch and tried a few pictures.  

My phone, didn't capture the redness.





 I tried taking a picture with my phone and got this


Then, I tried zooming in and got this
Then I dug out my camera.   It is very difficult to balance on crutches and stand still. I even tried leaning back against my husband to stablize myself; but no go. The camera captured the color, but I kind of wobbled all over the place and got some interesting exposures.



My husband tried and I think he got the clearest, most stable shots.






Did you get out to see the moon.... it won't happen again until 2037 or 2057... depending on which article you read.  :)