Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse

A rather rare trifecta of moon events has occurred last night and this morning: A Super Blood Blood Moon Eclipse.  The last time this happened was 1866.  The following photographs were taken by me in Albuquerque, New Mexico with my Nikon Coolpix B500 camera using a zoom 40X telephoto lens.

A Super Moon ("a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth")

Super Moon January 1, 2018 (first full moon of January 2018)

A Blue Moon (a second full moon in a calendar month):

The first moon of the month of January 2018

The first moon of the month January 2, 2018

First Super Moonset over Albuquerque January 2, 2018

The second full moon of the month January 30, 2018 (a "Blue Moon")
The Blood Moon Eclipse January 31, 2018 

Blood Moon Eclipse over Albuquerque, New Mexico

Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse January 31, 2018 (about 6:15AM)

Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse January 31, 2018
As the morning light came about 6:30AM, I lost a lot of definition of the moon but it still was stunning in the blue sky.