Super moon with total lunar eclipse Sept 2015

SUPERMOON WITH TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE, with a blood moon.

28 September 2015

A supermoon is when the moon is at its closest to earth and appears 14% bigger than when at the furthest point. It is in its closest orbit to earth. The lunar eclipse is when the moon is eclipsed by earth’s shadow and turns red = a blood moon, due to sunlight scattered in the earth’s atmosphere. 

The last blood moon with super moon was 1982 and the next one will be in 2033. There have been 5 since 1900.

On 27 Sept the full moon rose and looked spectacular , these were taken 6,45 pm in London -

The eclipse began in the early hours of the morning of the 28th. I started taking these photos at 2.45 am -

Now the moon starts to turn red -

It is darker

  The moon above a roof -

This photo was taken at 3.29 am, after that it was too dark to really show on the photos -         

This was 4.05 as the moon started to lighten on the left side -

After that I gave up and went to bed as the moon was taking much longer than I expected to 'clear'.

Quite a fascinating event.

I saw my first blood red full moon at Pulau Sibu , Malaysia, 10 May 1990.

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In July 2015 I saw a blue moon  and also a total lunar eclipse in April 2015.