The strawberry supermoon

Looking for strawberries in the sky

Hi everyone! How is July going for you so far? I hope good. I just got back from vacation, so I actually have photos to share for once. Waaaaat. I know, right? It’s been a while.

I think they split roughly into three posts, so let’s see if we can Get. This. Done.

Post number 1 (if you couldn’t tell from the featured photo): The strawberry supermoon! In case you were wondering, apparently the June full moon is named “strawberry” because it falls during strawberry season? Thanks space.com.

So up here in the PNW, we have a thing with clouds and fog. It’s not great for viewing celestial events (ex: we missed The Great Conjuction last year because of an epic rain/snow storm — cue Cobalt and me watching it on TV because we found an observatory live-streaming it. Oh what a time to be alive.). On the night of the supermoon, we had some low-hanging clouds, but it looked like the fog was going to hold off. So we headed outside. And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And then Cobalt, who is great at finding things in the sky, said “I think that’s it over there.” There was a bright spot hidden behind the clouds. I played with my camera settings a little to see if we could pull out a moon.

A moon shape hidden in the clouds
DO YOU SEE IT?!?!

We found the moon! Now to wait for it to get out of the clouds…

Note: I am not very patient, so you get lots of moon-emerging pictures now. :) I mean, if you wanted the picture of the moon not in the clouds, just scroll to the top of this post. Done. OK… on to the emergence.

the moon is slightly more visible now
For some reason the moon looks like a giant Communion wafer to me… maybe it’s my Catholic upbringing…
Moon emerging from the clouds
Still getting strong Communion wafer vibes with this one…
Moon still emerging from behind clouds
At this point, the moon was more visible without crazy camera settings and Cobalt was getting excited too. I like that the top is so well defined.
Moon with a cloud in front of it
Oh you thought you were done with clouds? Hahahaha… :|
Moon with one whisp of a cloud in front of it
OK clouds, now you’re just teasing me. Also this cloud makes the moon look like it has a mouth.

Once the moon had emerged from the clouds, the adventure was sort of over for me. I mean, I took some photos of it obviously, but it just didn’t feel as epic. Plus it was late, so it was time to go to bed. I’ll leave you with one more fun photo: grass + moon!

Moon and street light out of focus and grass in focus in front of them
Which one is the moon and which one is a streetlight AGHHHHH HOW WILL WE KNOW?! :)