After reading all the hoopla about yet another Super Moon, I checked the moon tracker on my Droid smartphone and told Mother we’d better saddle up so I’d be ready at 6:46 when the moon was supposed to rise at 110 degrees, slightly south of east. I calculated that the terraces at the River Campus would be a good place to use the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge as a foreground object.
6:46 came and went. Then 7:00 and 7:15. That’s when I discovered that my moon ap thought I was still in Florida. I was an hour early. I cut a nap short for nothing.
That gave me plenty of time to shoot the trees in the gathering twilight, the river hiding behind a curve and a couple getting acquainted on the old bridge’s overlook before the moon made its appearance.
Super Moon photo gallery
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Ken, thank you so much for those beautiful pictures of the super moon. The trees are so thick on our property so I wanted to wait until it moved over to Lake Tanecomo but that would have been about 3 a.m.
Cloud cover was the problem then…..so happy I can see the good ole Mississippi and the bridge with the awesome moon. I’m forwarding these pictures to our children if that’s ok with you.
We are covered in trees, too, and I don’t know where I could go to see the moon. After the leaves drop, we get stunning views. Beautiful pictures, Ken, as always.
We stopped by the river to see the moon last night also. After Broussards and before Andy’s.
Ken:
I assume that post above this one is SPAM?
Hope you can delete it!
It was already deleted. Spammers are getting clever at sneaking through spam filters. The filter has caught 850 of them today, but two or three managed to make it through. I swat them down as soon as I see them, but folks who commented on a particular post that was spammed will get a notification. I’ve had two topics that were so popular with spammers that I closed comments on those posts. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The spam filter is bragging that it has stopped 231,168 bad posts in the last two or three years.
Here’s that “Super Moon” photographed by NASA.
(Looks like a huge melon to me.)
NASA Sees the Supermoon From Washington
Just in case that last link didn’t work –>
http://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-sees-the-supermoon-from-washington/
That SPAM still shows up to me, but my post after it does not.
Are you not allowing any more comments on this newsletter?
I thought I had deleted that one, but missed it. It’ll be gone in about 30 seconds. To see new content on a page you have visited before, press Crtl-F5 to refresh your browser (if you are on a PC).
This topic is open for comments. Thanks for letting me know it was still there.