On January 31st, we witnessed a very rare phenomenon in the heavens. It was what scientists called a Super Blue Blood Moon. This is the explanation I copied from the Internet:
A Blue Moon is when two full moons happen in the same calendar month; lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into Earth's shadow; and supermoons happen when the moon's perigee — its 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.
It is a blood moon because when the moon is eclipsed in the earth's shadow the sunsets of the earth are projected onto the moon, so the moon takes on the colors of the earth's sunsets and becomes orange/reddish. Thus, it looks like a "blood" moon.
As suggested, we got up about 5:20am to witness this event and I watched for a couple of hours, taking pictures every few minutes, capturing the different stages of the eclipse. (Ken had to be at the temple at 6:00am that morning) Following are my not so great pictures. The last one was in our local news. Someone took a very good photo, then superimposed it on a picture of the St. George tabernacle.
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Great pictures and explanations of this beautiful event!
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