I headed out last night in hopes of capturing a nice full moon rising over Marblehead harbor. I had tried to decide where to shoot from and ended up at Lovis Cove with a borrowed super telephoto lens on a cloudless night. While the sunset was nothing to write home about, the moon rise more than made up for it. It took a little while for the full Sturgeon moon to make its way past the haze but, once it did, it made for quite a sight.
As I stood there shooting with traffic from The Barnacle coming out to say hi, I kept hearing people calling this a blue moon. Now normally a blue moon is the name given to the second full moon in a month. I happened to be on Facebook while waiting for the moon to move into another position and saw Matt Noyes (NECN Meteorologist) explaining that this moon fit the original criteria for a blue moon – the third of four full moons in a given season.
Whatever you call it, it sure made for a nice addition to an already beautiful harbor.
