Last night we were about twenty hours before Full Moon – tonight we were about four hours after it. No chance at all here to see the Moon 100% illuminated, but this was about as close as we were going to get, 99.9% full and shrinking toward New Moon in two weeks (and a full solar eclipse across Spain and Northern Africa in six weeks.)
It took a few minutes to get up above those mountains and water tanks (no flat horizons here!) and the cloudbanks piling up from the ocean against the Cajon Pass.
It looked spectacular!
Enough smoke in the air from local brush fires to give it some color. Wonderful!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 