Three days ago, back before I realized that I would be triggered by a software “update” (done no doubt for “my benefit”) (YES, I’m still pissy about it, I’ll start behaving now, sorta), I was down the block looking for the first full moon moonrise of October.
There was a LOT of smoke still being kicked out by the Bobcat Fire off in that direction. (Hey, they’re all the way up to 88% contained now!) That streak above it is a plane going into Runway 08 at Burbank – we’re looking right down the flight path.
It was incredibly orange! This doesn’t even begin to convey it.
Shorter exposures that don’t show the landscape but bring out the detail in the moon do a much better job of showing what it actually looked like. Let’s hear it for the human eye with a MUCH higher dynamic range than even the best digital cameras.
Twenty-five minutes or so after rising, the moon was out of the worst of the smoke and just looking a bit brownish.
That’s one – look for a second full moon, a “blue moon,” on Halloween night, October 31st!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 