By Jove, that moon is big!

I think I have always been a fan of the moon, whether it's cutting the sky with a skinny crescent or giving us a full-on blast of redirected sunlight when it's full. 

I know the track it takes across the sky above our house, and how it's higher or lower in the sky, depending on the season. I even admit to a few personal traditions I follow, though howling isn't one of them. 

When I'm travelling anyplace near the Equator, I love how its crescent shape seems to lie on its back, rather than 'standing' upright, like a giant "C" in the sky, the way it does here in northern climes. 

Last night's, called the Wolf Moon, was so bright, I actually tried to take photos of my hand in its shadow. The moon's light was so intense, I thought it might work. But no, my little camera couldn't quite manage it; I only got a bunch of darkish blurs which I chose to delete. 

As for the moon itself, even taking a photo of it through the skylight (probably not as clean in winter as it could be) looked pretty great to me. 

And if you look closely (maybe click on the photo to enlarge it a bit), you should actually see the rounded ball of our solar neighbours, Mars. 

Bluper moon?

By now most people probably know that the second full moon occurring in the same month gets called a blue moon.

This one was even more than that, as it was one of those occurrences when the moon is close enough to the earth to earn the title 'supermoon'.

And then, to make things even crazier, there was a lunar eclipse at 5:26 am, which led to last night's/this morning's moon to qualify as a super blue blood moon. Impressive titling, to be sure. Makes me think of British uppah-classes or worse, that hateful little rich boy in Monty. 

I was too lazy to get up at 5, so I didn't get to see the eclipse or the moon turning red. Still, I was pretty happy to get this shot of the just about perfectly full moon last night -- probably just before the clouds took over the sky.