This has been a strange year. We arrived in Florida in March and have stayed home since. That is about 6 months now. The Covid-19 virus has set the world to be a different place with stay at home orders, restaurants and bars closed, shelves in the grocery stores empty of toilet paper and antiseptic good, virtual school and doctor visits, hospitals that don’t let visitors enter and no only emergency care, wearing a mask when you are in public and people staying six feet apart. Who knows what the new world will be like after this.
the sun set .
the Supermoon came up over a farm in up-state New York.
It was full and round; we waited for the total lunar eclipse, the sun, earth and moon form a straight line. The Earth blocks any direct sunlight from reaching the Moon. The Sun is behind the Earth so the Sun's light casts the Earth's shadow on the moon.
It began around 8pm
The last time this happened was 1982 and the next time this will happen will be 2033. It is rare because it is a confluence of three things: 1. The moon being full and in its closest point in its orbit around the Earth (that is why is it a super moon). 2. The Earth will line up directly with the sun and the moon. 3. Therefore the moon will completely fall in the shadow of the Earth. 
Here it is over half covered by the Earth's shadow. The Moon is called a blood moon because lot of light scatters off the Earth's atmosphere and the moon looks a coppery red color. That was around 11pm here in New York. We did get a peek at it though our bedroom window, but no photo.
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