Blood Moon

Well, this is an interesting time for a "Blood Moon", having it on Election Day for the first time ever. Is that a sign of something, or just dumb luck?

Wyoming photographer Dave Porter took some incredible shots of the blood moon on Sunday and he shared them with K2 Radio News.

If you're a fan of sky phenomena, you'll want to mark your calendar for later this spring when a total lunar eclipse will be visible over Wyoming.

It shows up as just a small bust of light, barely perceptible, but it matches NASA's definitions of what a rock hitting the moon would look like

For 1 hour and 11 minutes, the heavens will provide the entertainment and grandeur of the planetary dance and the resultant, Supermoon. That’s where a new or full moon will be at it’s closest to earth in it’s elliptical orbit around our planet...

I had been up for about an hour and a half, but I forgot to charge my Canon Camera. At about a 4:15, I tried a shot through my iPhone 4s, but it was lame. Thankfully, dedicated Wyoming photographer Dana Gage dragged himself out of bed to capture this image of the moon passing into the earth's shadow...