{"id":3308,"date":"2016-11-16T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T11:43:28","slug":"super-moon-over-hatton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3308","title":{"rendered":"Super Moon over Hatton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They said it would be the brightest and biggest moon visible from Earth since 1948.\u00a0 So along with countless others I got out my camera and waited for moon rise at 4.33 pm.\u00a0 I have a wonderful little App on my phone called The Photographer’s Ephemeris<\/em> which shows where the sun and the moon will be at any place and any time.\u00a0 So I knew where and when to look for moonrise in Hatton.<\/p>\n

4.33 came and went….no moon visible just a bank of cloud over the horizon and light cloud cover above.\u00a0\u00a0 Just the same happened in September 2015 when we were promised a lunar eclipse in the early hours of the morning.\u00a0 Having set the alarm clock, I staggered out to the garden in the wee small hours and saw nothing – cloud cover!\u00a0\u00a0 Now it seemed that history had repeated itself.\u00a0 The best view was supposed to be when the moon was rising.\u00a0 Then it would appear at its biggest and brightest.\u00a0\u00a0 Hatton it seems\u00a0is not the best place for celestial photography.\u00a0\u00a0 I remember the same happened when we were waiting for the solar eclipse in\u00a0March that same year and again the sky was cloud covered.\u00a0\u00a0All we could see was a faint light struggling to penetrate the sky cover.<\/p>\n

\"Solar<\/a>
Solar eclipse March 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I had the whole night.\u00a0 Every so often I popped out to look for the moon, and bingo!\u00a0 at 7.58 pm\u00a0there it was peeping through the light cloud.\u00a0\u00a0 Not the greatest picture of the moon and when the sky did eventually clear enough, not even a very spectacular moon.\u00a0 Much like any other full moon I had seen before in Hatton.\u00a0 But they did say that the best pictures would be at moonrise and moonset.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>
First glimpse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"8<\/a>
8 pm moon peeps through the clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"8<\/a>
8 pm moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I put this down as another moon shot failure until I drew the curtains at 7.00 am.\u00a0 Clear sky, and there was the moon at last.\u00a0 I grabbed the camera, and called for Poppy to come with me and we went moon hunting.\u00a0 At first I thought it had\u00a0disappeared again behind a bank of cloud, but with the moon so low in the sky I had to wander about to get a good view of the south-western horizon and there it was.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a>
Blue moon in the morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Golden<\/a>
Golden moon in the morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Golden<\/a>
Golden moon in the morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps not the most dramatic pictures taken that night of the super moon.\u00a0\u00a0 But I have my suspicions about some of the pictures posted on facebook anyway.\u00a0 A few of them look a bit doctored.\u00a0\u00a0 I promise that mine are genuine!<\/p>\n

By the way, I was not the only one having difficulties seeing the super moon, Jenny reported there was cloud cover in Clackmannanshire and and George in North Carolina had the same problem!<\/p>\n

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They said it would be the brightest and biggest moon visible from Earth since 1948.\u00a0 So along with countless others I got out my camera and waited for moon rise at 4.33 pm.\u00a0 I have a wonderful little App on my phone called The Photographer’s Ephemeris which shows where the sun and the moon will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}