Blue Moon Rising by Shawn Berglund
Blue Moon Rising (Shawn Berglund)

Blue Moon Rising by Shawn Berglund

Photo of the Week for August 7, 2015 July’s second full Moon was widely touted as a “blue […]

Photo of the Week for August 7, 2015

July’s second full Moon was widely touted as a “blue Moon,” following the modern definition of the term. Once in a blue Moon? Two full Moons in a month isn’t particularly rare (there’ll be two instances in 2018 alone) and the lunar disc certainly doesn’t take on a blue hue. Originally, the phrase referred to the third full Moon in a season that featured four, but that usage has fallen out of favour — no doubt partly because it’s more difficult to keep track of than the simple two-in-one-month definition.

Blue Moon Rising by Shawn Berglund
Blue Moon Rising (Shawn Berglund)

British Columbia photographer Shawn Berglund recorded this view of the July blue Moon rising behind a distance cell tower. He used a Nikon D5200 DSLR camera attached to a Celestron Omni XLT 102 f/9.8 refractor telescope for the 1/160 second exposure at ISO 400.