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Supermoon Blood Moon: Be Still and Listen, The Earth is Singing …
I’d been singing all day. Lots of lyrics, but these ones keep putting themselves before me at the moment: So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon at night and then I came home … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Writing
Tagged blood moon, illustration, Poetry, Supermoon, Year of the Rabbit. Chinese Astrology
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Total Solar Eclipse: A Day of Coronae, Aureoles, Supermoons and Roundishness all Round
A moment to moment video of this morning’s total eclipse of the sun, from Faroe, which lasted about 2 minutes. The video’s long, so if you haven’t the time to watch all of it, go to about 1:10 and watch till 2:22 to see the approach of the eclipse through to the point it begins to pass. This is a spectacular recording of an historical moment. March 20 is the 2015 March equinox and the moon turns new only 14 hours after reaching lunar perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth in its orbit – and this means this moon is a supermoon and will have a larger-than-average effect on Earth’s oceans. This new supermoon swings right in front of the equinox sun so that its shadow falls on parts of Earth. Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Science
Tagged Earth, Earth Orbit, Faroe Islands, Lunar Perigree, March Equinox, Moon Orbit, Supermoon, Total Eclipse of Sun
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