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See the "supermoon" total eclipse tonight! For sky watchers in the Rocky Mountain states, partial eclipse begins at 7:11 pm local time, so look outside now!  For those of us on the West Coast of North America, moon rise occurs closer to sunset, in a little over 30 minutes.  Here in the Eastern Sierra, local moon rise is around 6:44 pm and sunset is around 6:47 pm. The moon will clear the horizon to the east right around sunset, well into its partial eclipse phase, and be fully eclipsed from 7:11 - 8:23 pm. See my blog post for more details: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/09/27/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-september-27-28-2015/ #astronomy    #astrophotography    #lunareclipse   #september2015    #supermoon    #moon   #landscapephotography

Bodie Open Until 10 pm Tonight, with Supermoon Rise Bodie is offering one of its Ghost Stories tour nights tonight, which means that they let other park visitors stay late too.  It's also a "supermoon" full moon today, and in a setting like Bodie with an eastern horizon about 3.5 degrees in elevation it'll rise over the apparent horizon during or right after peak sky color, about 20 minutes after sunset.  It gets fully dark around 9:04 pm, so you can also have nearly an hour of full moon night photography before the park closes.  As you can imagine, the park can be super crowded on a night like this, so don't expect to have it, or any particular subject, to yourself, but for the novelty of the overall experience or for practice shooting interesting subjects (and people) under full moon lighting, it's nice that the park makes such opportunities available. For a much longer, much less crowded experience, we have two more nights left in Bodie this year, October 1...

Supermoon Saturday is Coming! Do you know where your moon will be?  With PhotoPills you can figure it out! www.MyPhotoGuides.com #astrophotography   #astronomy   #supermoon   #moon   #photography   http://www.photopills.com/blog/all-you-need-make-saturdays-supermoon-shine-your-photos

Supermoon Rise Over Mono Lake The night of the lunar eclipse last week started with the moon rise just before sunset.  I caught the moon rising at Mono Lake.   There may be only one day a month when you can capture a moon rise at sunset like this as I describe in this old blog post from 2006: How To Plan for Great Full Moon Rise and Set Shots! http://activesole.blogspot.com/2006/11/plan-ahead-for-great-full-moon-rise-and.html I talk in the blog post about having a calendar in "your cell phone or PDA"... does anyone remember the old Palm Treo 650?  That's what I had before the original Droid! #lunareclipse   #bloodmoon   #astrophotography   #supermoon