Perigee Supermoon
May 7, 2012 in Medicine Bow National Forest, Night
“Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
- The Buddha Siddharta
The perigee super moon was on Saturday, and people in all places turned their heads to the sky and paid just a little bit more attention to our own moon that night. The moon looked bigger than normal, in fact, the biggest of the entire year. NASA put together a very informational video about what this celestial event is. Take a couple minutes and watch the video below and you might learn something new!
I drove out into the Laramie Mountains to watch the perigee moon rise, but unfortunately it was cloudy in south east Wyoming. By the time the moon peeked above the clouds it was already far above the horizon and looked much smaller.
Although the moon was obstructed by clouds, it was still beautiful and I turned to the west and watched Venus start to set instead.
Sometimes it takes a little hype over a celestial event to drag people — including myself — out of our warm homes and electric powered lives and into the night to slow things down and take the time to simply watch our sun set and our moon rise. Nonetheless it was nice to take the Jeep and my dog miles into the hills on rocky dirt roads to watch the moonlight take over the night.
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
