I spent the evening observing and photographing this beautiful sight in an open space from just blocks my home. What I observed was the penumbra, or shadow of earth slowly moving across the moon. \u00a0The moon got dark and then reddish. Because\u00a0the sunlight acts like a prism and only the red light is bent into the shadow\u00a0on the moon, we get the reddish hues. The\u00a0sunrises and sunsets are reflected onto the the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n The moon is called a \u201csupermoon\u201d because it\u2019s closes to Earth (perigee) and it appears larger in diameter. \u201cSupermoons\u201d<\/a> <\/span><\/strong>occur 4-6 times a year,<\/p>\n There are 3 types of lunar eclipses: Total, partial and penumbral<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span> The lunar eclipse happens during a FULL MOON. Because the moon\u2019s orbit is slightly inclined to Earth, most full moons are not aligned properly, and so we don\u2019t get an eclipse during our monthly full moons. Lunar eclipses happen about twice a year, but they are not TOTAL, not always at night, which this one was. They say that we\u2019ll not see another TOTAL lunar eclipse until 2033. There have been only five since 1900.<\/p>\n October 8, 2014 was the\u00a0second of the tetrad of Blood Moons.<\/a><\/span> The first Blood Moon happened April 15, 2014, the third was April 4, 2015, and the final was Sept 27, 2015.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I created several Arborglyph<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span> solarplate monoprints inspired by the various supermoons. Image sizes are 6\u2033x 6\u2033. \u00a0Some people claim \u201cmagic\u201d happens during these special occurrences. The imagery in these monoprints has a mysterious, magical quality. Is it a bird, a plane, a helicopter, or a creature floating near the moon?\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Arborglyph (1 symbol 34) Blood Moon Arborglyph (1 symbol 34) Blue Moon. A Blue Moon<\/strong> is the<\/a> second full moon in a solar calendar month<\/a>. The moon really isn\u2019t blue, but you often hear the phrase \u201cOnce in a Blue Moon\u201d, indicating something that rarely\u00a0happens. Even more rare is a real blue moon when atmospheric conditions such as smoke and dust from fires or volcanoes give the moon a bluish hue.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n Did you see it on Sept 27, 2015? Blood Moon, a \u201csupermoon\u201d, AND a TOTAL lunar eclipse! This time was more rare than the other Blood Moons mentioned below which were partial eclipses. <\/p>\n I spent the evening observing and photographing this beautiful sight in an open space from just blocks my home. What I observed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,11,5],"tags":[241,243,250,249,242],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arborglyphs","category-inspiration","category-nature","category-printmaking","tag-blood-moon","tag-blue-moon","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-supermoon","tag-tetrad","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BloodMoonHLredbl_700x476\"](\"http:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BloodMoonHLredbl_700x4761.jpg\")
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\u00a9 2014 Linda C Everson<\/p><\/div>\n