There is a rare phenomenon called the Super Blue Blood Moon and it happened this morning! The last time it was visible in North America was 150 years ago, so it was quite the site to see. I'm so glad I got to witness it happen.

It all started last night, the super blue moon was out in full force. It was so bright it lit up everything like it was daytime.
The moon was so bright we could see our shadows as we were walking to take the pictures, we honestly could've driven home without any headlights! I have never seen the moon so bright in my life! It was breath taking.

My fiance @ayogihasnoname caught the moon in her hand on her half moon yoga, it's a pretty epic shot if I do say so myself! (cuz i took it lol)

What is a super blue blood moon?

• A supermoon is when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth and can appear to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than normal.

• A blue moon is when you have two full moons in the same month.

• The Blood Moon is when the moon has a reddish tint, this occurs because the Earth is passing between the Moon and the Sun. This is caused by the light bending around the Earth because of gravity passing around a portion of the atmosphere, more commonly known as a lunar eclipse.

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Learning photography on the fly

I am still rather new to photography, so point and shoot is basically the extent of my technique. LoL. Well as you can see that doesn't really work to well at night!

So at 430am I was looking up tutorials on how to take long exposure pictures and missed the first part of the eclipse.

Thankfully not to much though!

Between learning how to set and use the apputure, shutter speed and ISO I had my work cut out for me in a short period of time. I was snapping pictures constantly to try to find the right settings. I did pretty well on the regular moon pictures but still have some learning to do to get the really good pictures of the blood moon.

Here is when the moon started to appear the slightest color red, it was after the eclipse had almost completely set in.

I can't even begin to explain how beautiful this was, we sat and watched it for the better part of an hour. Unfortunately these pictures don't really do it justice.

I really wanted to share this with everyone on steemit because I know many of you didn't get an opportunity to see this amazing phenomenon and I didn't want you to miss out on it completely.

Like I always say: "The best things in life are always free!" And this is just more proof of that.

Sorry that these pictures are a bit blurry, I still have some learning to do obviously. Maybe someone who knows a bit more about photography can leave me a comment as to why it didn't come in better. I even used a tripod and a timer!

Hope you enjoyed

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