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The Other Side of Midnight

This is a phase of the moon I rarely see and have never photographed before for reasons that will become obvious. After an unsuccessful imaging night thwarted with intermittent high cloud and unwanted car headlights we finally gave up around 1:15am. As we were packing up a very yellow half moon crept over the eastern […]

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December 10, 2017
astrophotography / celestial / gibbous / lunar / moon / moonlight / tidallock / waning
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Teasing Out The Detail

The other night I captured this image of the waxing moon and published a single (out of the camera) image taken at 1/160s, f/9 iso100. On that same night I took a short sequence of 30 images at 1/160s, f/11 to try and avoid the highlight blowouts. From these I picked the best 20, stacked […]

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December 3, 2017
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Unrequited Affection

The only thing we generally see different from night to night when we look to the moon is its own shadow progressing across its face. That familiar pock marked disk of craters and ridges never changes. As for the ‘dark side of the moon’, it is the Moon’s dark side day of our tidal side’s […]

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November 27, 2017
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Look At The Moon

‘Look at the moon’ you said as we headed out for the evening. As the full moon rises above the horizon seeming larger than normal it’s almost impossible to not notices its ancient glowing face. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard those words. Later that evening, high in the night’s sky, the moon […]

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November 5, 2017
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Lunar Sunset

The sun and its golden glow had long since disappeared beyond the western horizon. You could be forgiven for thinking the sunset was over. Looking high up into the eastern sky however the golden orange light of a west bound sun still clung to the clouds. There amidst that orange glow a waning gibbous moon […]

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April 25, 2017
astrophotography / celestial / clouds / gibbous / golden / landscape / lunar / lunarscape / moon / sunset / waning
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