The moon was a distinct shade of orangey red as it was seen beneath the tower atop The Kenney on Fauntleroy Way SW.
Photo by David Rosen of Slickpix Photography.
People were seen all over the west side as the Super Blood Wolf Moon eclipsed on Sunday evening under only partially cloudy skies.
Folks came outside, parked by the beach or anywhere they could get a good vantage point to see the relatively rare phenomena.
The eclipse coincides with what is called a Supermoon which is a full moon that occurs when it is at or near its closest point to Earth during its orbit. Supermoons appear slightly bigger and brighter in the sky than regular full moons.
The "blood" part refers to the color fully eclipsed moons assume, the result of Earth's atmosphere bending some sunlight onto the mostly dark lunar surface. Red light makes it through, because it has longer wavelengths; shorter-wavelength light such as yellow and blue gets blocked and scattered by our planet's atmosphere.
January's full moon is traditionally known as the Wolf Moon.
