We arrived back in Vinca just in the nick of time to catch the rare conjunction of a super moon with a blood moon. It is known as a super moon because it is at it's closest point (perigree) to the earth in its elliptical orbit, so it appears up to 14% bigger & brighter in the sky.
It is a blood moon because the earth passes for a few hours between the moon and the sun, creating a total lunar eclipse and the infamous red colour due to the diffraction of sunlight through the earth's atmosphere.
So, will this tetrad bring with it another historical event? Only time will tell.
What we do know for sure is that total eclipses of super moons are very rare. According to NASA, they have occurred only 8 times in the last 2000 years. I say let us simply be grateful to have witnessed one! And if like most people you had a job to go to on that cold Monday morning and didn't fancy standing in a damp field waiting for the clouds to clear, you can always watch the film I made instead, The Blood Moon.
Or you can wait till the next one in 2033 :)
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