The night sky yesterday was lit with the coppery red moon that was really big, brightly lit and a blue moon. This has been the very first time in a span of thirty five years that three different events have synced together to form a phenomenon named ‘Super Blue Blood Moon’.
The moon was termed a blood moon due to the red hue reflected by earth’s atmosphere. Places such as Alaska and Hawaii had great seats for the event. Cities in Canada, Australia as well as Asia had great seats for the same. Apart from these places, Russia and western section of the U.S. had a good view of the celestial event.
In order to gaze at the beautiful moon, many people gathered near “Griffith Observatory” located at LA in numbers that were hundreds. The traffic around the Observatory was backed for about a mile. Many sky watchers also gathered near the Santa Monica Pier Beach while snapping pictures of the event while sitting on the sand filled beach with faces looking upward in the sky. John Cook, an artist for the films in the visual effects section also reached the neighborhood near Telegraph Hill along with his fellow photographers to capture the incredible view with the use of a Ferris wheel as well as the roller coaster that acted as a foreground for his photography.
Cook defined the view to be an incredible one while he put his best foot forward to capture the event with his camera. For folks from Marina district located at Marina district the sky was clear with not a single trace of the famous fog that usually covers the city skies. NASA termed this location, the Golden Gate Bridge where one could see a great view of the event as it occurred.
Clara Cambon, a local resident who was there at the location with her spouse said that the way our Moon changed colors was nothing less than a scene from the movie that reflected in the clear water below.
However, the sky watchers from places such as Europe, East Coast of the U.S., and a major part of South America as well as the African continent didn’t get a view of the eclipse. During the peak of the event, the moon was about 360,200 kilometers away from our blue planet.