The Super Moon-lunar eclipse-blood moon brought the neighborhood out to watch the night sky. People sat on their front porches and on blankets in their front yards; I sat on the curb in front of my mailbox to get the optimum view.
I love the night sky and especially moon watching. The Space Age began in my lifetime, 1957 (the year of my birth) with Sputnik. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were the explorations of the '60s. John Glenn, an Ohioan, was the first man to orbit the earth in 1962, and then Neil Armstrong, an astronaut from Wapakoneta, Ohio (just an hour up the road on I-75) walked on the moon in 1969. The space shuttles took the place of the rockets leading to a different kind of space exploration. And then there's the hometown pride...Orville and Wilbur Wright...the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who flew the first airplane over the sands of Kill Devils Hill, North Carolina.
This moon and the eclipse and the colors were spectacular. Bright white to gradual darkness to coppery red. And this won't happen again until 2033. I took some photos with my little Nikon Coolpix but they don't do justice to what was happening in the sky.
"I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment." ~ Colin Farrell
