NASA’s Super Blue Blood Moon

  • [photos by Jeff Zimmerman and Lance Borgstrom]

    [photos by Jeff Zimmerman and Lance Borgstrom]

NASA was excited about the astronomy-lovers’ trifecta from 4 to 5:30 a.m. on January 31 in the western sky over California.

Not for 151 years, since 1866 (at the end of the American Civil War), has there been a convergence of a super moon (when the moon is unusually close to the earth, making it appear bigger and…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Lance Borgstrom’s photos (insets) were taken at 4:45 and 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31 from the top of Mt. Pinos Way in Frazier Park, just before the blood moon eclipse totality. Jeff Zimmerman’s perch in Neenach yielded this larger blood moon with just a 280 mm lens.

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