{"id":3777,"date":"2015-09-28T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2015-09-28T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:18:36","slug":"supermoon-lunar-eclipse-at-perigee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-at-perigee\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Supermoon’ Lunar Eclipse at Perigee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Total Lunar Eclipse at Perigee, so-called ‘Supermoon’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The skies over London were beautifully clear for tonight’s astronomical event. A total lunar eclipse, not exactly a rare event but uncommon enough, coincided rather well with perigee, the Moon’s closest approach to Earth.<\/p>\n

A family member with good Greek observed that “peri” means “around” rather than close, making perigee an odd opposite for apogee, but there it is.<\/p>\n

In the evening before the eclipse, the full Moon appeared as an exceptionally large, exceptionally bright disk. The rather ridiculous term ‘Supermoon<\/a>‘ seemed not entirely inappropriate.<\/p>\n

A little after 3 am, the moon slipped from the Earth’s penumbra into its umbra and, its disk some 10% larger than usual, appeared to be big and a handsome coppery-orange, in other words distinctly red. The image is in its unadjusted colours, and the camera was as still as I could wedge it, which for a long exposure isn’t saying much, but it gives the feeling of looking for oneself in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

Very gradually the area of brighter yellow-orange at lower left diminished. The Moon’s disk became less and less bright, slowly losing colour. Then equally gradually, an area of brighter yellow-orange started to grow at upper left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The skies over London were beautifully clear for tonight’s astronomical event. A total lunar eclipse, not exactly a rare event but uncommon enough, coincided rather well with perigee, the Moon’s closest approach to Earth. A family member with good Greek observed that “peri” means “around” rather than close, making perigee an odd opposite for apogee, … Continue reading ‘Supermoon’ Lunar Eclipse at Perigee<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[891,892],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-perigee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}