Nor is it the megaMoon, it certainly can’t be referred to as the amazinglysplendoroussparklyMoon. It’s just the Moon, yes it may be a little closer at the moment but you’re not suddenly going to be blinded by looking at it, and it’s certainly not going to start boiling all the fluids in your brain 😉 Having said that, the Moon is super, but then it always is to me 🙂 I decided this morning to take a few early morning photographs of the Moon as it hovered above Blencathra and…
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All stuff astronomical.
Speeding along
This morning I got my camera gear ready for the ISS pass which I was cleverly notified of via Twitter, gone are the days of trying to work out when objects will be visible in the night sky, I just wait for the tweet 😉 Armed with the relevant information, wrapped in a couple of layers to ward off the cold winds which had developed over night I stepped outside around 0530hrs to get ready. The cloud was fairly high towards the East and was also flitting around the Moon…
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I took some photographs of the Moon yesterday illuminating some mist in the valley, and I found myself thinking about how much the Sun influences our lives. After all the light from the Moon illuminating that mist originated in the Sun, the light itself has a very different property when it’s reflected from the Moon. I’m not talking about the physical make up of the reflected light itself, I’m talking about the way Moonlight gives a distinct magical feel to a scene, especially when you add mist into the mix…
Read MoreFrom the Moon to frozen lakes
A few photographs starting with the Lunar eclipse – The snow covered Lakeland hills beyond Penrith Snowy Blencathra A frozen Bassenthwaite Lake with a snowy Skiddaw beyond.
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The snow covered lane and field lit by the crescent Moon.
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