A rare event compelled me to grab my camera and stand out in the cold autumn air for 2 hours. A complete lunar eclipse coincided with a super moon (when the full moon is at its closest point to earth) giving us a “Super Blood Moon”. I stood in my back yard with my wife watching this event unfold with scary accuracy on the timing. We joked about civilizations of a bygone era looking up in fear at such events and how far technology and our understanding of astronomy has come.
At approximately 9:08pm eastern standard time we started to notice a small “bite” being taken out of the left side of the moon. It took about 1 hour for the earths shadow to completely obscure the moon and finally bask it in a dim reddish light. Looking at it (aged 37) at the time of this writing I realized with amazement and some horror that the next time I would see such an event would be when I am in my early 50s and my now infant sons would have grown up to be men by then. Below you can see a composite of the photos I took with my trusty Canon SX40 Powershot camera.
In years to come it will be amazing to see how much further cameras evolve, see you for the next one in 2033!
Thomas Stirling - author
Tom Stirling is a Marketing Director with over 10 years experience working with a multitude of companies in corporate America. He has handled online projects for brands such as Kaspersky Lab, BMW & Lamborghini and had his work featured in publications such as Wired and Digital Trends and had his photography used as inspiration for a Hollywood movie. He lives in Kennebunk, Maine with his wife Sarah and two sons.
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