Supermoon Over Southern California

[xchrom]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/05/supermoon-over-southern-california

While Will Femia was busy trying to figure out if he could get a picture of tonight's supermoon rising along 42nd Street, I decided that here in Southern California it would be appropriate to get a picture of the supermoon rising over a freeway. In the end, it turned out that the angle was off by a couple of degrees, so I couldn't quite do it with the shape of the San Diego Freeway in my neck of the woods, but it was close!



And here it is a few minutes later, rising over the treetops. It no longer has the lovely red color that the haze near the horizon gave it, but since I'm not shooting from a freeway overpass, it's a little bit sharper. Tradeoffs are everywhere.

[PCIntern]

1. NICE! k and r

[Ilsa]

2. That is a great picture. Thank you. nt

[CrispyQ]

3. I waited all day for my Supermoon/Cinco de Mayo celebration, only to have it

cloud up over the afternoon & ruin the Supermoon part of the party. Fortunately, there were margs & smoke, so the Cinco de Mayo part of the celebration still occurred!



Thanks for the pics. Maybe tonight the sky will cooperate!

[xchrom]

4. we had a regular monsoon here.

no super moon for us

[MineralMan]

5. Thanks for posting those great photos!

As usual, those of us living in Minnesota didn't get to see it, due to clouds and thunderstorms.

[Scuba]

6. Thanks for posting, heavy overcast here.

Damn you Scott Walker!

[nevergiveup]

7. Wow!

Thanks for posting.