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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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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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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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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I really like the moon when it’s not a full circle. The shadows on the horizon are often quite stunning in highlighting the lunar mountains and creating a real three dimensional presence. A few days before last night’s full moon I decided to revisit the technical challenge of a half reasonable moon shot with an […]
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