Here is my partial set of pictures taken from last night’s total lunar eclipse, aka the rare selenelion. I tried staying up to 12:30am to witness the total eclipse, but I just couldn’t do it, tiring out right after midnight.
Are you ready for the total eclipse of the moon along with the rising sun? This so-called selenelion is supposedly impossible according to celestial geometry. But nope, this syzygy where the sun and the moon are perfectly aligned 180-degrees apart is happening.
When all of this is happening, I have no clue – Tuesday night/Wednesday morning or Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Can someone let me know in plain English and what time is this visible in HST?
Here’s my picture of the Blood Moon in April 2014.
Update: Here’s the Hawaii-centric information from the Star Advertiser.
Update 2: If you’re going to take pictures of the lunar eclipse, here’s an article that gives you camera settings to start off with.
Something about the sun and earth’s left/right/up/down position will make the full moon look big and golden tonight. This “honey moon” won’t occur again until 2098, so it’s best to look outside tonight.
On Thursday night, there was a preview of the honey moon. On the windward side, the moon was low on the horizon, yellowish, and kinda hazy/cloudy, almost dirty looking. First the supermoon, now the honey moon.