The moon appears blood red late at 10:45 pm on Sept 2, 2025, due to high level smoke from wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare. (Robin Rowland)
On the evening of September 2, the 70 per cent waxing gibbous moon appeared blood red due to high smoke from the BC interior wildfires and the large LNG Canada flare.
The LNG Canada flare at 8:10 pm. Sept. 2, 2025 (Robin Rowland)
There was a single flare during the time when it was still daylight at 8:10 pm.
A wide view of the LNG Canada flare, Kitimat, Douglas Channel and the mountains at 8:10 pm. (Robin Rowland)
When I went out again at between 9:31 and 9:41 to shoot the moon that was rising over Kitimat, it was dark and blood red.
The dark, blood red moon rising at 9:10 pm. (Robin Rowland)
With the mountains and where the track of the moon is that night, moonrise can be between 40 minutes and 60 minutes later than astronomical moon rise at sea level.
A closer view of the 70% gibbous waxing moon through smoke and haze. (Robin Rowland)
By 9:41 pmm the flare had doubled.
Flames and heavy smoke from the LNG flare at around 9:30 pm, Sept 2, 2025 (Robin Rowland)Flames and heavy smoke from the LNG flare at around 9:30 pm, Sept 2, 2025 (Robin Rowland)Flames and heavy smoke from the LNG flare at around 9:30 pm, Sept 2, 2025 (Robin Rowland)
Later in the evening, the moon was higher in the sky was brighter. I captured the moon looking down on the town and the flare (two different exposures) at 10:45 pm
The moon looks down at Kitimat and the LNG flare at about 10:45, Sept 2. (Robin Rowland)Moon and big flare, night Sept 2.
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