Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts

Friday, July 28, 2017

It's Space Time!

Jupiter is almost directly below the moon here.

Here, you can see it at the bottom of the image as a little dot.

After sunset the color change went from this to that beautiful pinkish red. 







Here are some made easy facts for you. Did you know that the full moons always rise around sunset and set around sunrise? Well, it does indeed. Here's another. The 1st quarter will rise around noontime and set around midnight. That makes it visible half the time in the afternoon and the other half in the evening hours.

On July 28th (Wait! that's today!! Be right back) Jupiter meets the moon. I actually have a picture of that. I was working on my night photography which is my weakest point. I'm doing better, but got a long ways to go, too. Night photography is a whole different animal and to me it's the hardest to get right with no noise. Even now, I have noise in those pictures that I am working very hard on to solve.

The moon photography is getting better. You can almost see the "man in the moon face",  too.

It All Started in the wee hours of May 28th when 80 MPH winds was tossing everything against the side of my house.

 Those winds were substained for well over 40 minutes. The results were trees everywhere down or large branches broken off. One of my bus ro...