Last Saturday evening I was driving to Swindon with 3 friends to dance at a 'Hafla' (party). Part of the route took us along the M4 motorway heading east as I drove over a rise in the road there in front of us was the moon but not an ordinary moon, it was HUGE in the sky.
We were all amazed how beautiful the moon looked and no-one had a camera, so I have found the best photos to show you what we saw.
David said that it was a 'Perigee Moon' which refers to how close the moon is to the Earth. It was such a wonderful colour and we had caught it just as it broke over the horizon. The moon was just so orange with red craters and marks, even later that night it was hard to realise that the silver small moon high in the sky was the same object.
This really is the closest colour I can find to what we saw.
It was very distracting trying to drive and look but we were lucky on the motorway to drive towards the moon as it rose in the sky for about 15 minutes.
How lucky we were to see such a moon!
David said that it was a 'Perigee Moon' which refers to how close the moon is to the Earth. It was such a wonderful colour and we had caught it just as it broke over the horizon. The moon was just so orange with red craters and marks, even later that night it was hard to realise that the silver small moon high in the sky was the same object.
This really is the closest colour I can find to what we saw.
It was very distracting trying to drive and look but we were lucky on the motorway to drive towards the moon as it rose in the sky for about 15 minutes.
How lucky we were to see such a moon!
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