The last Moonrise of 2009

The last moonrise of 2009 was a blue moon, the moon came over the horizon just as the sun went down. It seemed so big as it came over the horizon that it would be possible to touch it or at least lasso it as in the ferry tails. Though the moon wasn’t it’s closest to earth it was quite a site to. I took the photograph seen here in two photographs, one to correctly expose the moon and the other to correctly expose the tree seen in front of it.

As a note have your camera ready on Jan. 30, 2009 as we again have a minimum distance to the moon according to this website, also for those close to the ocean/beach at this date the tides will be at their peak for the year.