Neeti Kumthekar in Belmar, New Jersey, caught the January 2018 supermoon rising with a mirage effect. The rising or setting moon or sun can exhibit a mirage when there are air layers of different temperatures near your horizon – for example, over an ocean. Read more about mirages from Atmospheric Optics and click here for more supermoon photos.
Nima Asadzadeh wrote: “Here’s a photo sequence of the total lunar eclipse … taken from Nandal, northern area of Mount Damavand, Iran. This sequence includes 54 frames which layered to show partial phases of totality. Camera not moved through the entire sequence.” The movement, of course, is from Earth’s rotation. The object below the eclipsed moon is Mars. See more Mars and eclipse photos.
Nicholas Holshouser called this meteor: “The ‘Jerry Lee Lewis Great Ball of Fire’ Perseid meteor. Looking west towards the Great Smoky Mountains from an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Taken at 4:38 a.m. on August 13, 2018. The bright train was visible for over a minute and it formed a high vapor cloud and was visible above me for more than 20 minutes as it went overhead.” Click here for more meteor photos.
“That was amazing!” wrote Joaquin Baldwin on Twitter. “The SpaceX launch from Vandenberg was incredible! I took one long 9-minute photo. The stage 2 cloud was spiraling … what a show!” More photos here.
See it! Images of comet 46P/Wirtanen: Look here for photos and video of 2018’s Christmas comet and brightest comet 46P/Wirtanen. Thanks to all in the EarthSky community who contributed photos of this wonderful and long-lasting sky event! See photos of comet Wirtanen.
Eleanor Imster has helped write and edit EarthSky since 1995. She was an integral part of the award-winning EarthSky radio series almost since it began until it ended in 2013. She and her husband live in Tennessee, where they enjoy guitar playing and singing. They have 2 grown sons.
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