Paul, Author at Computer Looking Up

Moon Reunites with Venus on Hot Summer Night, June 2018

June 16, 2018 Paul 730 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

We’re about a month from the last rendezvous of the Moon and Venus.

June 7, 2018 Paul 892 Views 0 Comments Moon

I don’t always photograph the Moon in broad daylight. But when I do, I try to include a former world’s tallest building, for perspective.

June 5, 2018 Paul 763 Views 0 Comments Jupiter

The current positions and timing of our planets offer an opportunity to see both Jupiter and Venus in the sky shortly after Dusk.

Above Leo and to the left you can see Coma Berenices. It sort of blends in with the other fainter stars directly above Leo.

May 18, 2018 Paul 728 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

If you look closely above and to the left of the Moon, you can see stars. They were not visible to me at the time I took this picture.

For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking my telescope and camera out on a “school night.”

April 30, 2018 Paul 599 Views 0 Comments Moon

Just one problem, though – the Moon was approaching Full and washed much of the sky out. So I settled for looking at the Moon, mostly.

April 19, 2018 Paul 767 Views 0 Comments Moon

The Moon is now significant higher than Venus after Sunset, and fuller. So I took my digital camera and tripod outside to take the above picture.

April 17, 2018 Paul 710 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

Despite the unseasonably cold chill (the reason I have not posted anything for several weeks), I set up my camera to take this photograph.