Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve updated my blog.  Unfortunately, I haven’t really been well enough lately to have any adventures worth writing about but I’ll admit that yes, I am indeed missing a couple here.  I’ll try to catch up soon but I just had to post these couple pictures first.

It’s tough to explain how and why I fell out of love with astronomy.  Every now and then though, something comes up that piques my interest again and despite everything else going on, I decided that I’d cave into the hype and spend sometime with…the supermoon!  (Is it just me or should there be some ominous music at this point?)  Most of the hyped up astronomical events of late have been big disappointments but not this one!

So…what the heck is a ‘supermoon’?  Well, technically speaking, it’s the name that journalists who dabble in pop science give to a moon that’s closer to the earth than usual.  In fact, the pop science ‘supermoon’ definition is so vague that there are often several supermoons in a year.  Astronomers, on the other hand, normally call the closest moon of the year a perigee full moon.  Not quite the same ring to it but, it’s not about how it sounds, it’s how it looks!