Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Super Blue Blood Moon

The moon looked pretty super as we were driving to the Rincon basketball game late yesterday afternoon.  It appeared larger than normal, rising over Santa Catalinas.  Beautiful! 
We got up by 5:15 this morning, ran out the front door, and saw the lunar eclipse!  I set the timer on my computer and we went outside every 4 minutes for the next hour and a half.  We watched as the eclipse went from partial to a full eclipse, and then the moon appeared a reddish copper color.  Amazing to see the super blue blood moon, a combination of lunar eclipse, blood moon and super moon, visible in the western hemisphere for the first time in 152 years!