Moon puts on a colorful show in Pahrump, Death Valley, beyond
Staff Report
National Park Service
A look at the eclipse early Wednesday at Death Valley National Park. The super blue moon passed through Earth’s shadow, taking on a reddish tint.
National Park Service
Here is the eclipse at Death Valley National Park as it occurred early Wednesday. The whole process took more than four hours.
Pearl Lowell/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
Thunar eclipse captured from an Orion telescope from a local Pahrump resident on Wednesday. The reddish-orange moon was out around 5 a.m. in the Pahrump Valley on Wednesday.
Pearl Lowell/Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
A Pahrump teen grabbed a shot of the lunar eclipse on Wednesday on the south end of town through an Orion telescope. The orange appearance started to show around 5 a.m.
Patrick Connolly/Las Vegas Review-Journal
The super blue blood moon sets over Red Rock Canyon and Mount Charleston in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.
Moon-gazers had a special opportunity to view a rare celestial event.
NASA said the event early Wednesday offered a rare opportunity to see a super moon, a blue moon and a lunar eclipse at the same time.
A super moon occurs when the moon is closer to Earth in its orbit and appears about 14 percent brighter than usual.
As the second full moon of the month, this moon is also commonly known as a blue moon, though it is not blue in appearance, NASA said.
The super blue moon passed through Earth’s shadow, taking on a reddish tint, known as a blood moon, NASA said.
The whole process took more than four hours.
This was first super blue blood moon since 1982, a combination won’t happen again until 2037.
