Pages Tagged “Moon”
Reviews
- When The Moon Hits Your Eye
★★★★☆
John Scalzi
A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. Not so much about the moon turning into cheese as how lots of different people react to the moon turning into cheese.
Blog Posts
- Moonshots
Saturday night’s crescent moon. One shot for the daylit crescent, the other for the night side lit by earthshine (with some clouds as a bonus). J. helped with focusing the telephoto lens. The second shot is a lot noisier than I’d like since I was adjusting levels on the JPEG, but I have the raw […]
- Waxing and Waning Moon
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon, taken with the really long telephoto lens. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, which I’d love to get a photo of, but the moon is just waaay too bright to capture the background stars! Plus I’m still getting used to the controls on this camera. And […]
- Lunar Eclipse, January 2019
The evening was hectic, and I almost forgot. I had literally just put my son to bed when I remembered, “The eclipse!” We went out to see if the sky was clear. Clouds were rushing across the sky, but for the most part, it was clear, and we had a perfect view of the moon […]
- Pumpkin Pie Moon
I suggest that a deep orange moon right before Christmas be called a Pumpkin Pie Moon.
- Super Blue Blood Moon Blur
I woke up way too early to see if the Super Blue Blood Moon* eclipse would be visible or blocked by clouds. (You never know, and I didn’t want to wake up the kiddo in the middle of a school night if there wasn’t anything to see.) I had a clear view, but the street […]
- Moon Moon: Phone vs. Camera Revisted
I spotted this view of the moon and Jupiter bordered by flowers while at the Orange County Fair last week. While I love the look of the shot, it’s terribly grainy and full of compression artifacts. My phone isn’t great at things like zoom or low light conditions. I’ve been using it as my main […]
- Moonrise
The full moon hung low in the east, rising pale yellow against a shadowed sky. A cluster of lights floated next to it, airplanes lining up for approach to the runway I was driving past. I’d glanced over just as I passed under their flight path. Above the moon and the lights, a band of […]
- Eclipse on the Hill
Neighbors gathered at the top of a hill to watch the eclipsed moon rise above the city, through a frustratingly cloudy sky.
- Supermoon Rising Through Clouds
Last night’s supermoon rising through light clouds. Spotted, oddly enough, while walking past a Supercuts.
- Lunar Eclipse = Front-Yard Astronomy (Photos)
One of the nice things about lunar eclipses is how easy they are to watch. No special equipment needed, just a clear view, even from the city.
- Gray Moon Rising
A few nights ago I watched the moon rise. Normally it’s yellow or orange when it’s at the horizon, but to my surprise, this time it just looked gray.
- Supermoon and Lamppost
Most of the “supermoon” effect is illusion and expectation, but it’s a great reminder to get out and look at — or photograph — the full moon.
- St Patrick’s Day Moon and Jupiter
I almost missed this near-approach, but fortunately I had to make an early-evening grocery run and looked up at the sky.
- Photos: Comet Watch LA
An evening watching the sun set above the clouds, a crescent moon pop into existence, Jupiter through a telescope, a red moonset, and of course a comet!
- Moon and Jupiter Conjunction
Two views of the moon/Jupiter conjunction of January 21, 2013, one taken with a phone and the other with a somewhat better camera.
- Moon Photo & New Camera
I wanted to run out and try it out with scenic photos on a beautiful March afternoon, but had to charge the batteries first. I got a great shot of the moon that evening.
- Lunar Eclipse and Sunrise (With Photos)
I woke up early this morning to catch the lunar eclipse. I watched it move into totality from home, then drove down to the beach to watch it set, and stayed out to watch the sun rise.
- New Moon and Venus
- Recent Links: Moon and More
Linkblogging: SMBC, XKCD, space pics, Flash Forward, mobile web usability and more.
- Mental Photo of the Day
I watched an airplane fly past the barely crescent moon on approach to landing, at a distance such that they looked the same size.
- Links: Identity, Kindle, Language, and the Moon
Linkblogging: Privacy in terms of identity. The new Kindle. The future of old-timey language. Geek Merit Badges. The Moon Hoax debunked as a comic.
- Arcadia & Orange Moon Over LA
A trip to the theater, then an unexpected bonus: A view of a deep orange half-moon above the distant LA skyline.
- Pillar Moon
Photo: A full moon rising through hazy clouds with a yellow glow around it and a faint light pillar above.
- Moon and Venus Above Palms
- Yellow Clouds at Sunset & Herringbone Moon
Last Thursday evening, this was the view from one of the office windows. Later that night, I took this photo. Or rather, these photos, since it’s a composite of two, one which picked up the herringbone pattern of the clouds and one which picked up the moon and the corona surrounding it.
- Stellar Triangle
I managed to get a few shots of the near-conjunction of the crescent moon, Jupiter and Venus tonight before they sank into the haze. The first two shots were taken at twilight (well, dusk, really), around 5:05–5:10 PM PST, while the third was taken at 5:30, after night had fallen.
- Eclipse Ring
I found this while looking through a box of old photos, in an envelope marked Lunar Eclipse and developed in June 1994. Most likely the May 25, 1994 eclipse. I’m not sure, but I think the bright splotch near the bottom is actually the moon, and the clear image of the moon up near the […]
- Fire by Night
With the winds dying down, the smoke from the Santiago Fire clung loosely to the mountains most of the day. Unfortunately, smoke from the new fires down on Camp Pendleton drifted up the coast to take its place, bringing back the yellowish sunlight. Also, without the wind to clear them away, ashes left a thorough […]
- Lunar Eclipse pics
I decided to go for it, and set my alarm for 2:30 AM (ick) to see the eclipse. The moon was nearing totality at that point, with a too-shallow crescent near the bottom and the rest in slightly reddish shadow. My original plan was to lie down on the balcony and watch, but it turned […]
- Lunar Indecision
I’m still trying to decide whether I should set an alarm to wake myself up at ski-o’clock in the morning to see tonight’s/tomorrow’s lunar eclipse. I mean, I skipped the Perseid meteor shower a few weeks ago, but that would have required not only getting up in the wee hours of the night, but driving […]
- Pumpkin Moon
We were driving home from visiting relatives this evening, and noticed a dull orange ellipse on the horizon, appearing and disappearing between trees. It didn’t take long to realize it was the moon, just beginning to rise. As the freeway twisted and turned, and we went through areas full of houses, retail centers, and trees, […]
- Wow
If you haven’t already, go over and look at today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s an incredible shot of the Moon and Venus during last weekend’s conjunction.
- Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow
There’s a lunar eclipse tomorrow. It looks like we’ll only get to see the tail end of it here in California, right at moonrise. Europe and Africa get to see the whole thing. Interestingly, the map of where the eclipse will be visible manages to cover the major land masses almost exactly. The only region […]
- Crescent moon and Venus
I walked out the front door last night around 5:50 to pick up the mail, and immediately walked back in to get the camera, because this is what I saw: My parents gave me a flexible mini-tripod for Christmas, and it proved very helpful here, as there was nowhere flat where I could set the […]
- Moon over Saddleback
I took this photo a few weeks back after a rainstorm dusted the local mountains with snow. This is the same view as the third picture in this snowblogging post, taken at sunset that evening with a nearly-full moon. I decided not to include it in that post, but couldn’t bring myself to toss the […]
- The Moon and Venus, sitting in a tree
This view of the Moon and Venus was taken from our apartment balcony earlier this evening. I also took a picture yesterday, from the top of a parking structure near John Wayne Airport (we went to a show at UCI later that evening.) You can see the red trail an airplane left as it crossed […]
- Look, up in the sky!
A few nights ago I was walking around sunset, and decided to look for something that had been mentioned last week on the Astronomy Picture of the Day: the Belt of Venus. Somehow I’d never noticed that after sunset, the band of red encircles the entire sky at the horizon. Even more amazing, if you […]
- On Google Moon
Google Maps has been extended to the moon, with all the Apollo landing sites marked. Be sure to experiment with zoom for full effect.
- Shooting the Moon
Some idiot is out there taking flash pictures of the eclipse.