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Last Week’s Full MOON — HANDHELD, With My Google Pixel 7 Pro Smartphone!

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by Anura Guruge
on October 1, 2023

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Not, point-&-click per se — I will admit & confess.

Does take a bit of fiddling, some patience & a lot of tenacity.

First you have to get the TWO (2) brightness controls (via their sliders) just right. Also the magnification. Doesn’t appear to work with FULL magnification (i.e., 20x). About 15x seems to be the right number.

THEN, & this is crucial, you need to hold the camera, as steady as possible, to let the sensor adjust. That takes a minute or so! Yes, hard on the arms.

But, the results — i.e., that it is handheld from a phone — never ceases to blow me away.

Just my regular Google Pixel 7 Pro — that I use everyday to take my daily quota of photos & occasionally to make/answer a call. SMILE.

There Is NO Reason, Whatsoever, For The Moon To Be ‘Blue’. Things Down Here Aren’t That Grim. I Give You The Multicolored Moon.

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by Anura Guruge
on September 1, 2023

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SMILE!

Super, Blue MOON, August 31, 2023 — With A Google Pixel 7 Pro Smartphone, HANDHELD!

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by Anura Guruge
on August 31, 2023

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WOW! I am blown away.

I was out on my nightly midnight amble (with the dogs). The moon was out — bright & cloudless. I thought I would give it a try — handheld. WOW. This phone can be MAGICAL.

Just my regular Google Pixel 7 Pro — that I use everyday to take my daily quota of photos & occasionally to make/answer a call. SMILE.

Super, Blue MOON, August 30, 2023 — With A Google Pixel 7 Pro Smartphone.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 31, 2023

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Nothing fancy. Just my regular Google Pixel 7 Pro — that I use everyday to take my daily quota of photos & occasionally to make/answer a call. SMILE.

Rare ‘Black Moon’ Over New England Tonight — April 30, 2022.

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by Anura Guruge
on April 30, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE. Base chart, prior to my annotations, from ‘timeanddate.com‘ (with thanks).

‘Blue Moon‘ can mean one of two things:

1. Second full moon within the same calendar month.

2. Third full moon during an astronomical season that has four full moons; an astronomical season in this context being the 3-month period between an equinox and a solstice, e.g., 3-months between the March Spring Equinox and the June Summer Solstice.

‘Black Moon‘, DITTO, but when it applies to a NEW MOON.

So, it means:

1. Second NEW moon within the same calendar month — as is the case this month, i.e., April 2022.

2. Third NEW moon during an astronomical season that has four full moons; an astronomical season in this context being the 3-month period between an equinox and a solstice, e.g., 3-months between the March Spring Equinox and the June Summer Solstice.

So, as you can see from the 2nd image above we have TWO NEW MOONS in the month of April 2022. Hence, why that of April 30 (i.e., today) is a BLACK MOON.

The last time we had a Black Moon on the East Coast of U.S. was in July 2019.
[With Blue/Black Moons you need to be specific of the location because time zones can SOMETIMES play a part, e.g., a Blue/Black Moon on the West Coast but not the East!]

Black Moons occur, on average, every 29-months, i.e., roughly every 2.5 years. So, today’s black moon is on schedule.