Supermoon ,moonrise. sunset and moon halo- 2017-Dec-3 and 4

Although  I don't care too much about supermoons, I always like to see the full moon rising and this evening just 17 minutes after sunset I had a chance to see and take some photos.

The next photos clearly show why I can't see the exact moon rise. There ar mountains to the east which blocks the horizon. It requires about 60 minutes driving to pass them (not including evening traffic jams!)

moon rise

moon rise

A nice surprise was an airplane which was considering enough to cross the moon.

moon rise and an airplane

And in the video notice how the hot gases from the engines twist the photo

Here is the full movie of the moonrise at 4x speed

High clouds continued the following evening so I took some other fine photos:

Sunset 4-Dec-2017

And the following photo reminded me the famous scene from "Apocalypse now".

A helicopter in sunset

One hour after sunset the moon rose

moonrise 4-Dec-2017

moonrise 4 Dec-2017

And later that night a compelte 22deg moon halo, The entire winter-hexagon is visible including the Orion group.

moon halo 4/12/2017