Digging through the archives.
Yuck, what a title. The "Super" part is an adjective coined by an astrologer (ahem) for a perigean full moon. The "Blood Moon" adjective is a term popularized by an evangelical minister (double ahem) as part of his prophesy of the imminent apocalypse in 2015 (And how did that work out? I thought so). The "Flower" part is the folklore term for a May full moon (when the spring flowers bloom). Unfortunately, the popular science media have seized on all these terms because they produce effective click-bait headlines. So don't blame me - they started it.
For all rational people there was a total lunar eclipse on the night of 15-16 May 2022 .
The sky was mostly cloudy in Santa Fe for this event, but there was a brief break in the clouds near the time of maximum eclipse. I was able to snap a few pictures and then the clouds closed in again.
Equipment: Orion 80mm f/7.5 refractor and Olympus E-M5iii camera.
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| 10:06 MDT. ISO 800, 1/10 s. |
The star visible just above the moon is HR 5762, a 5.5-magnitude star in Libra. The "HR" part of the designation refers to the Harvard Revised Photometry Catalog.
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