This is one of the most spectacular moon eclipses that I have ever captured. To the naked eye we view a reddish moon during a full eclipse of the #moon (hence the name #bloodmoon ) but cameras can capture more details and colours than the eye thanks to the..
technique of long exposure and the ability to magnify through a telephoto lens.
All the sunsets and sunrises of earth wrap around sun rays from earth and reflect to the moon during a full eclipse but not just that, there is also that blue to turquoise colour on lower..
left part of the moon thanks to the sunrays hitting earth ozone layer and reflecting on the moon surface, isn’t that beautiful? 😍
These pictures document the #mooneclipse2018 taken with various lenses. The first picture also shows #planetmars on top left. The second picture..
that was printed on todays @canberratimes paper shows a group of Canberran photographers that were brave enough to get up there that morning, one sits right through the moon (I would love to know who that is 😍). The forth moon shows a huge #shootingstar (aka #meteor 😃)..
Moon is a fat lazy man.
In most Aboriginal cultures, the Sun is a woman and the Moon is a man. Some Aboriginal communities describe the Sun woman pursuing the Moon man across the sky from day to day, occasionally meeting during an eclipse.
The Yolngu people.. #mooneclipse#moon
.. call the Moon Ngalindi and he too travels across the sky. Originally, he was a fat lazy man (corresponding to the full Moon) for which he was punished by his wives, who chopped bits off him with their axes, producing the waning Moon. He managed to escape by climbing a tall ...
tree to follow the Sun, but was mortally wounded, and died (the new Moon). After remaining dead for 3 days, he rose again, growing round and fat 🙂 (the waxing Moon), until, after two weeks his wives attacked him again. The cycle continues to repeat every month. Until Ngalindi ..