Friday, February 9, 2018

A Blue Moon is when two full moons happen in the same calendar month: lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow; and supermoons happen when the moon's perigee- it's 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.
I woke the kids up early that morning to see this spectacular moon. Their first reaction? "Where is it? I don't see it." It was actually harder to see than what the picture shows. The moon was almost invisible, I thought. Still, it was pretty cool to see. I had actually gone outside the evening before, and although the moon looked normal, I remember thinking that it was very bright. Like, the pool side looked lit up, except that the only thing shining down on it was the moon.


I took these other 2 pictures from the Internet. Obviously, my phone camera didn't do it justice.



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