A “supermoon” is when the moon comes close to (“close” still meaning a couple hundred thousand miles away from) the Earth.

A “blood moon,” or total lunar eclipse, is when the Earth, the moon and the sun all align in a straight line when the moon is full so that the Earth’s shadow blocks out the sun’s light at night.

A “Moonie” is a nAughty litTle troll gigGling and pressing random keys as I’m tryin4 to type th@s PosT. Moonie, cut that 0Ut!

You little goober.

Where were we? Ah, yes. Given that Moonie and I both love the moon, we happily watched the sky Sunday night for the total lunar eclipse of what Moonie likes to call the “Supermoon(ie).”

It started off gorgeous as we watched the big full moon rise through the trees.

Up a little higher….

Then the lunar eclipse started off very slowly with just a smudge of darkness on the left.

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