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Red Moon

May 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Astronomy, Observations

We got in on Saturday night late, sometime around 3:00AM after dancing up a storm for Matthew’s going away party, and as I slogged around the apartment turning off lights I caught this out the corner of my eye. The moon is sitting right down on the horizon (it slipped beneath a moment later) and it’s a sinister dark red. Picture’s not fantastic because I was in no condition to wrestle with night time exposure settings. But check out the colour! Eerie.

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You can sortof make out the peak of the church in Aylmer, tip reaching up just above the bottom of the moon – neat. In a few weeks I may be able to get a silhouette of the church in front of the moon – that’d be a cool shot.

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  • 1 Natasha // May 7, 2009 at 10:13 am

    “Don’t come out tonight, they’re bound to take your life, there’s a bad moon on the rise”.

  • 2 Umm, Natasha 2 // May 10, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Its even better when the moon is full!

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