Moonrise at Fisheries Jetty

 The moonrise on 5 December was supposed to be the final supermoon for quite a while.  So we took ourselves off to Fisheries Jetty at the appropriate time.    The rise was due at 09:03 at 57 degrees which my compass app lined up as towards Captain Stevenson's Point.  See red arrow.

By 0905 there was no sign of the moon breaking through the cloud on the horizon so we turned to leave.  As we looked in the direction of the yellow line there was a bright glow in the sky close to Howe Hill!  So I got out my camera to find a nice red battery icon.  , I said, !  Not a biggie as I had a spare battery in my bag.  Another nice red icon! So phone photos were the 'option'.

A nice line in the Inlet!

I was about over taking snaps of white poles so moved to the smaller jetty and got a nice water line.

I put that image on a Facebook post and a friend - a kayak maestro - commented that it also looks great upside down.  I think he is correct.

On getting home we went down to the back fence and the poor little phone got an atmospheric record shot of the risen moon through the Angophoras.

I have no idea why the compass app was determined to point me where it did for 57 degrees from the Jetty.  I have checked from my desk just now and it shows: 

• North to be towards Mt Imlay, which is correct according to Google Earth (GE); and
• 57 degrees is exactly where the moon was rising through the trees last night.

I also checked the bearing of the yellow line in the map image above with GE and it is the expected 57 degrees.  At the Jetty this morning a bearing of 57 degrees went exactly along the yellow line.  The direction offered last night was now 160 degrees.  I have concluded my phone is now a computer as in "To err is human.  To really stuff things up you need a computer."

My camera battery charger is also begging for mercy having been well used (enough, enough 'too late' it cried).