Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising.
“I see the bad moon a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin’
I see bad times today.”
Lyrics: John C. Fogerty.
[This song shown hereunder, back in the year 1969, evoked the civil discord, felt around the world, in relation to the then Vietnam War, without explicitly referring to that actual war].
Last evening, due to clear skies, Tipperary got more than a brief glimpse of this year’s supermoons; the Blood Moon.
The full moon entered our earth’s shadow yesterday, which made it appear much bigger and brighter in the heavens than is usual, however displaying a red tint.
A super blood moon, like last nights, occurs when the moon travels around our planet in an elliptical orbit, or an elongated circle, according to the space agency NASA.
Each month, the Moon passes through ‘perigee‘ (the point in the orbit of the moon at which it is nearest to the earths centre) and ‘apogee‘ (the point in the orbit of the moon or indeed any other object orbiting our earth that is at the greatest distance from the centre of our earth).
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