Once In A Blue Moon......

Chiswick photographer Jon Perry captured the unique sight in our skies

The rare lunar event dubbed the "super blue blood Moon" dazzled skywatchers around the world. It was a once in a blue moon event and Chiswick photographer Jon Perry was there to record it.

Taken from a hill at Richmond Park, Jon took this shot of the supermoon at 16.59 with the moon behind the buildings in the City. The unique event happens when a total lunar eclipse, a blood Moon and a supermoon coincide and it is not expected again for another 150 years.

The image above was featured on the BBC lunchtime news today at 1.30pm and the presenter remarked "what a beautiful picture it is."

Jon told chiswickw4.com that it can be difficult to get a good view when the skies are cloudy but he was in luck last night.

"The weather was kind and it was a magical sight. The moon looks large if you can get some distant human scale (say buildings) in front of it a long way away. We know the buildings are huge, but perspective makes them small, hence the moon looks gigantic. High in the sky we have no reference for comparison," he commented.

You can see the sequence of his photographs ....thank you Jon for sharing them with us.

For those who like the technical details, for the first shot, he used a four-thirds camera with a 300mm lens and 1.4x extender. This gives the equivalent of a lens of 840mm on a full frame camera. The other three pictures were all on a full frame camera with a 100-400 lens, mostly near the 400mm lens. No filters used. Editing done on software at home.

February 1, 2018