Moon special events in January

[PossumCorner]

Tonight was supposed to be a super moon or a blood moon.  It looked pretty normal to me, was white against a milky sky for the first hour or so, I took a quick photo to spark up some enthusiasm for the late January event: and mini New Year's Resolution to use a Nikon for that one, not the little Lumix which is over-challenged by star and moon stuff.

 

 

End of the month is supposed to be super moon, blood moon, semi eclipse all on one night, hope it won't be cloudy and there is something good to see.  I think this link gives some detail of times and what is happening.

https://www.space.com/39208-super-blue-blood-moon-guide.html

 

Edit to add: reading that link pointed out my errors in this post: I blame it on mis-information from a radio announcement this afternoon. 

 

 

Edited January 1, 2018 by PossumCorner
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[Kirislin]

You got a great view of it. I couldn’t see a thing here it was cloudy all that night.

[gillybob]

It was raining here so I ditched the clothes and ran around the backyard like a crazy person. Had fun and washed off all of last years negativity.

 

[persephone]

1 hour ago, gillybob said:

It was raining here so I ditched the clothes and ran around the backyard like a crazy person. Had fun and washed off all of last years negativity.

 

 Glad someone else has rain 'showers'

[PossumCorner]

You lucky duck gillybob.  We live on a corner, fairly flat with not many trees.  Anyone driving up the road a kilometre away can see me hanging the washing out from one road or feeding the chooks from the other.  Only ten cars or so a day - just can't rely on no-one driving past at critical moments though.

 

Lucky on the rain too: can't believe we have just had over an hour of black clouds with thunder and lightning, and not one drop of rain.

[J...]

Really looking forward to the full moon on the 31st, unfortunately we tend to cop a bit of cloud cover even in Summer 

 

Shame it's a Wed night, but I'm still considering taking a drive an hour or so North to get a better vantage point. 

[gillybob]

Ill be out there again this time ready with wishes and dreams to ask for and things to say thankyou for.

I love full moons.

[PossumCorner]

I so missed the event.  Didn't catch the early moonrise, and then we had enough cloud across the eclipse to miss it.  Next morning I was still sleep deprived, but went out for moon-set just in case it was awesome.  It was good, just not what I'd had in mind.

 

 

 

This morning I was a bit earlier and there was a lovely white moon in a blue sky so made another attempt.

 

 

Did anyone have a good view of the eclipse?  Take photos or yawn and go back to bed?

 

 

Edited February 3, 2018 by PossumCorner
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[Kirislin]

I watched it and took some pics but my longest lens is 200mm so no good. What I did do a couple of mornings later was to get out of bed and take the dogs for a walk up the local park at 4.30am and it was magical.  The moon was so incredibly bright, I didnt use a torch, just walked in the moonlight. the dogs love it when we do stuff like this.     It was one of those walks I will remember forever.

Edited March 25, 2018 by Kirislin

[PossumCorner]

Full Moon tonight (30 April) - called the Pink Moon (for some reason I didn't get).  It is huge though, and red-orange, must be loads of dust in the atmosphere.