Last August the Idiots drove about 1500 miles to see the total eclipse of the sun. The January 31, 2018 lunar eclipse was a heck of a lot easier. The weather was great at their home in Green Valley, Arizona. Idiot He got up about four AM and took a sequence of pictures. Idiot She and their guests got up about 6:15 AM and said “wow – that’s cool!” and went back to bed.
This was a “coincidental” eclipse that got a lot of attention. It was three unusual types of moon at the same time. It was a “blood moon” – a total eclipse of the moon. It was a “blue moon” – the second full moon in the same month. And it was a “super moon” – which occurs when the moon is at its closest orbit point to the earth. None of those is really rare – but having all three of them coincide doesn’t happen very often. The last one was in 1866.
Idiot He just has a little point-and-shoot camera, but he leaned against his house and got as steady as he could… not great photographs, but kind of fun!
