Super Blue Blood Moon over Melbourne 墨爾本血月 31.1.2018.
This image is included in a gallery "Top Color's" curated by Django_Walter Reinhardt.
Last night, a blue moon (a second full moon in a calendar month), a super moon (when the moon is unusually close to Earth (360,198 Km this time), making it bigger and brighter) and a blood moon (a moment during an eclipse when the moon appears red) all coincided for the first time since 1866 (152 years) - a rare trifecta.
Several minutes before (and after) totality, the contrast between the remaining pale-yellow sliver of the moon's surface and the ruddy-brown coloration spread over the rest of the disk may produce a beautiful phenomenon known to some as the "Japanese Lantern Effect."
This was the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first Blue Moon lunar eclipse since 1982. A Blue Moon combined with a Supermoon (when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth and appears to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than normal) the rare phenomena is called a Super Blue Blood Moon happens. Supermoons generally only occur once every 14 months and will not happen again until January 2019.
I did not have high hopes earlier in the evening. However, the clouds cleared and viewing was good. I even saw a shooting star glancing across the Orion Constellation. I captured this image at my front yard. The moon looks "inverted" when viewed in Down Under. Apart from noise reduction, curves and sharpening, the colours have not been tweaked.
Super Blue Blood Moon over Melbourne 墨爾本血月 31.1.2018.
This image is included in a gallery "Top Color's" curated by Django_Walter Reinhardt.
Last night, a blue moon (a second full moon in a calendar month), a super moon (when the moon is unusually close to Earth (360,198 Km this time), making it bigger and brighter) and a blood moon (a moment during an eclipse when the moon appears red) all coincided for the first time since 1866 (152 years) - a rare trifecta.
Several minutes before (and after) totality, the contrast between the remaining pale-yellow sliver of the moon's surface and the ruddy-brown coloration spread over the rest of the disk may produce a beautiful phenomenon known to some as the "Japanese Lantern Effect."
This was the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first Blue Moon lunar eclipse since 1982. A Blue Moon combined with a Supermoon (when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth and appears to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than normal) the rare phenomena is called a Super Blue Blood Moon happens. Supermoons generally only occur once every 14 months and will not happen again until January 2019.
I did not have high hopes earlier in the evening. However, the clouds cleared and viewing was good. I even saw a shooting star glancing across the Orion Constellation. I captured this image at my front yard. The moon looks "inverted" when viewed in Down Under. Apart from noise reduction, curves and sharpening, the colours have not been tweaked.