Last Tuesday night over five hours we watched our moon transition from moon-rise in partial shadow, through full lunar eclipse to shining fully bright. As the moon rose above the horizon it glowed red due to light scattering both ways through the Earth’s atmosphere atmosphere. As it rose, the dark umbra crept across a lunar […]
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First it was billed as the lunar astronomical event of the year, a full super-moon, blood-moon lunar eclipse. Then the forecasters told of doom and gloom as all of Southern Australia was to be covered by spectacle smothering wet blanket of high altitude cloud. We canceled our planned trip to a favorite dark sky lookout […]
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Shrouded behind veils of patchy cloud an impossible challenge is to capture the details of the lunar surface as well as the intricate details of wispy cloud. In the end a compromise was to over expose the moon, to under expose the clouds and do my best to get detail in both. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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