Full Moon was on Sunday, January 4th, but we had quite a bit of cloud cover.
However, the January 5th Waning Gibbous Moon at 99.2% illuminated was beautiful to behold.
Photography by Curtis and Norma Beaird
From the Farmer's Almanac:
Full Wolf Moon – January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.
Waning Gibbous Moon at 96.8% illuminated
.....peeking behind the Georgia pecan trees
January 6, 2015
...and a little later
Waning Gibbous Moon at 96.2% illuminated
January 6, 2015
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