Super Moon

SUPER MOON

A Super Moon is when a full or new moon reaches its approximate closest distance to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a slightly larger, more bright of image of a moon. This usually occurs with blood or blue moons but it will happen all together on January 31, 2018.

Blue moon

BLUE MOON

A Blue moon is another rare phenomenon in which two full moons occur in the same calendar month, this causes lunar eclipses to occur when the moon passes into earths shadow. A combination of this and a super moon will occur on January 31,2018.

Blood Moon

BLOOD MOON

A Blood Moon is a rare phenomenon in which the moon in full eclipse appears with a red tint as its illuminated by the sunlight filtered and refracted by the earths atmosphere. This occurs usually only once a year and one will occur on January 31, 2018.