PHOTOS: Super Blood Moon Over Windsor

Sunday September 27th, 2015, 11:20pm

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Photo By Owen Wolter/windsoriteDOTca

Sky watchers across Windsor and Essex County caught photos of what’s coined as a Super Blood Moon, Sunday evening.

The #SuperBloodMoon was a combination of a super moon – which occurs when the moon is closest to the orbit of the earth – and a lunar eclipse, when the earth stands in the way of the sun.

The extra-large moon was 14 percent larger and thirty percent brighter than usual, and when combined with the eclipse, formed a rare phenomenon that hadn’t taken place since 1982, and won’t reoccur until 2033.

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Photo By Owen Wolter/windsoriteDOTca

This was taken through the lens of a telescope supplied by RASC Windsor at a viewing event at Assumption Park, hosted by the city of windsor by Laurie Makulski Harrison