Here you see the first supermoon of the year as it appeared over Great Cove yesterday at 5 a.m., when a curtain of overcast opened briefly. The moon still was considered full, although it first appeared full Monday, during days of rain, overcast, and fog prevented us from seeing it here until yesterday.
Within minutes of this image being taken, the curtain of overcast started to close again, and the morning fog continued to roll over Eggemoggin Reach toward us:
By 6:00 a.m., Babson Island and most of our north field had disappeared in fog. The sun burned it off later in the morning.
This moon is considered to be a “supermoon” because it’s orbiting about 14,000 miles closer to Earth than average. It’s also a “blue moon” because it’s the third full moon in a season with four full moons. (The second full moon in a rare month with two full moons also is considered to be a “blue moon.”)
Finally, this August full moon traditionally is called the sturgeon moon, a translation of the Algonquin tribe name for it, because the month is one of the best times for catching those fish. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 21, 2024.)