The beautiful glowing orb shining over Denver early Friday morning is spectacular.
But alas, sadly, the Pink Moon, the nickname for April’s full moon, was not pink at all.
The moon was so big and illuminated over a clear black sky that one could make out pockmarks and scars attributed to asteroid showers, but still no pinkish tint.
Not to worry if you rose too late and missed the “Pink” moon officially turn “full” at 5:12 a.m. in Denver.
It will still be big and beautiful, fullish, albeit not pink, Friday night.
The weather forecast calls for clear skies over the Denver metro area, said Jim Kalina, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Boulder.
“It should be pretty good,” said Kalina, who admitted he had never heard of such a thing as a “Pink Moon.”
According to Space.com, the pink moon full moon is an actuality if not particularly accurate. Its website used a lot of scientific gobbledegook to describe this year’s magnificent view.
“The moon will be three days past perigee, the point in its orbit where the natural satellite is nearest to Earth, so it will almost be a ‘supermoon,’ appearing larger than average,” Space.com explained.
If anyone is interested in the general vicinity of the Friday night space spectacle, the bright white Pink Moon will be in the constellation Virgo.
What’s that?
The third quadrant of the southern hemisphere, of course.
So look southish.
