This isn’t the SuperMoon

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 πŸ˜‰ Having said that, the Moon is super, but then it always is to me πŸ™‚ I decided this morning to take a few early morning photographs of the Moon as it hovered above Blencathra and…

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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 πŸ˜‰ 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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Darker than normal

When I returned home this morning I was a little disappointed, I had intended having spent a while on the way home stopping off at various places for misty morning photographs. Sadly the weather wasn’t really suitable – being thick fog and black ice on the smaller roads. Next to where I park the car there is a small wooded area, the Moon was just descending towards the horizon and had dipped beneath the tree tops, I stood for a while looking at the way the Moon lit the scene…

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