As most of you know this morning Wednesday, January 31st we experienced something here in America that has not happened in a long time! It was the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first Blue/Blood Moon visible from the U.S. since 1866!
Here is a shot from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles!
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A Blue Moon is when two full moons happen in the same calendar month; lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth's shadow; and supermoons happen when the moon's perigee — its closest approach to Earth in a single orbit — coincides with a full moon. In this case, the supermoon also happens to be the day of the lunar eclipse.
According to NASA the moon was around 223,068 miles from Earth, compared to the average distance of 238,855 miles.
I always have enjoyed taking pictures of the moon, here are a couple shots have taken over the last year. I left these pictures large so you can see the details better!
However, this time around because it was kind of cloudy and sitting low in the sky I was only able to capture a couple of decent pictures.
Here is what I was able to capture this morning here in Central IL, under not so good conditions. Again leaving the pictures larger so more can be seen!
Now the moon is starting to go down behind the trees!
All statistics in this post come from HERE
Here is my other post from this week in case you may have missed it, please take a look!
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