There’s something really neat about looking up in the sky and seeing vast, empty space that is illuminated by the moon and stars light years away. It makes you think about how small our planet really is in the grand scheme of the things. Personally, it also makes me think about the small joys in my own life: nighttime fires while camping as a kid, or summer walks at night – here, or in the woods of my family’s summer home in New Hampshire. Looking up at the night sky is both comforting and perplexing. What’s out there in the galaxies far beyond ours? How can space continue forever? It’s questions like those that I try not to think about – it gives me a headache.
I much prefer to just sit back and enjoy scenes like this weekend’s “supermoon.” Also called a “perigee moon,” it’s when we have a full moon at the same time that it’s at its closest point to earth along its oblong-shaped orbit. For us, it means the moon is extra big and extra bright. I took these pictures one day early as I left work on Friday. Not yet at it’s peek, it was still quite a scene as the light reflected off the night clouds. Framed a different way, the added satellite dishes in the foreground make the whole thing look like something from the cover of a science fiction novel. I think I’ll have to get my better camera out for the next supermoons, which fall on August 10th and September 9th.
Click here to see images of the July, 2014 supermoon captured around the world.
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