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The World
Through My Lens
A "Super Blood Wolf Moon" occurred the evening of January 20, 2019. What the heck is a Super Blood Wolf Moon, you say? When the moon is eclipsed by the earth, the moon isn't being illuminated by the sun, and it is only lit by the light that is reflected off the earth. The side of the earth that is facing the moon during the eclipse is in darkness, so the only light reflected off the earth is from the outside edges of the earth which are all in either sunrise or sunset - and that light is mostly red. For that reason, it's called a Super Blood Moon. So what's with the "Wolf" part of the name? The first full moon of every year is called a Wolf Moon. Hence Super Blood Wolf Moon. In Denver, the eclipse happened at about 10PM, so it was quite high in the sky during the eclipse, and there was nothing that I could do to get anything interesting in the foreground. A pic of just the moon would be pretty boring, so I had to resort to combining two photos. I took photos of the red moon in eclipse with the longest telephoto lens I have, capturing some stars in the process. That in itself is unusual, since like all big cities, Denver's city lights pretty much obscure the stars at night. Then I shot the Denver skyline looking east - the general direction at which a full moon rises right after sunset. I combined the two shots, enhanced the stars a bit, and ended up with this photograph.

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