Moongazers the world over were in awe of Saturday's shining lunar showing, a super perigree moon that happens only once every 18 years or so. Lucky for us, they took pictures.
A photographer caught this image of a shimmering orange supermoon just as it crested the tree line behind the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple in Lillburn, Ga., outside Atlanta. An app on the photographer's iPad showed exactly where and when the moon would rise over the structure.
It was thriller time in the capitol as an orange and red perigee moon rose over Washington, D.C. The moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth; when the moon seems smaller and more distant, it's on the farthest side (apogee) of its orbit, while the perigee side is about 31,000 miles closer to Earth.
Bernard Chen said he found several hundred photographers at this location when he arrived with his camera gear in tow.
This picture was snapped near the Chelsea Bridge in London, where the skies were lit up by a yellow perigee moon. The photographer says no colors were changed, only shadows lightened and contrast adjusted.
