Solar lunar eclipse blood moon on September 27th at 8:30pm. (Photo by Tana McNiven)
Cloudy skies obscured part of Sunday night’s lunar eclipse, but local observers were able to catch parts of the ‘blood moon’ phase among the clouds. The ‘super moon’ was at the spot in its slightly oblong orbit that brings it closest to the Earth. Sunday’s lunar eclipse was the last in a series of four over the past two years, a phenomenon called a tetrad. The last super moon total lunar eclipse occurred 33 years ago. The next one will be in 2033.
