Blue Supermoon over Audlem

Many residents will have stayed up late to view the Blue Supermoon this week.

For those that did not we enclose some photos taken from the Village and Kinsey Heath albeit on a somewhat hazy night.

A Supermoon occurs when the moon is closest to the earth on its elliptical orbit. This time it was the closest this year when the moon was 222,034 miles away – that is more than 100 miles closer than normal.
Since this is the second full moon in August it is known as a Blue Moon – hence a Blue Supermoon.

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