Music played loud in my neighbourhood till late into the night. It was Holi evening and the celebrations hadn't stopped. I gazed out my balcony into the dark night. The lights in people's homes had not gone off yet. They too were awake what with loud music playing everywhere. And then, I spotted it. No, it was not a neighbour's house light; nor, any street light. It was far in the horizon popping up those faraway hills, behind those tall palm tree leaves. It was not static. Every second, it seemed to move up. Was it some satellite or an alien space-ship? It was huge! And, it was red! Blood Red. No, it couldnot be the sun. The sun had already said bye bye for the day almost four hours ago. It could not be Mars too, although, it was the only 'red' planet or celestial object known. And, it was so huge, unbelievably so. The moon? How can it be the moon? The moon was always white with those grey crater patches. And, it was far smaller. This red ball was so huge, a giant infact; and, so close to earth too! As it kept moving up, I grabbed my phone to capture it. It was an amazing sight, my phone's camera simply donot do justice ( plus, it goes kinda blind after dark :s ) . Those who saw it with their own eyes will understand what I mean. The pictures below look similar to one another, but, if you notice closely that red ball is moving up few cms every few second - in real, it must be hundreds of kms distance :s A quick google search told me that it was indeed the Moon, and it was the Red Moon; a phenomenon that happened after a full moon total lunar exclipse, where earth's passing shadow cast those reddish hues as sun's light gets somewhat blocked. Oh...my...it was so amazing. Soak in the glory of Blood Moon, folks!
a small video of the same - and yea, that was the loud music I was talking abat :|
A Skywatch Post!
