Nearly Missed This Gem – Moon and Venus after Sunset
Despite the unseasonably cold chill (the reason I have not posted anything for several weeks), I set up my camera to take this photograph.
Despite the unseasonably cold chill (the reason I have not posted anything for several weeks), I set up my camera to take this photograph.
The beaming Moon, contrasted to the blurry haze of last night’s, was too tempting a target not to get my camera and tripod out.
Though I missed taking a picture of the Full Moon on March 1st, I did get this picture the following night of the early Waning Moon.
I caught a great view of a very Waning Moon rising in the East, with a bonus of Jupiter following along.
My location was quite different from where I photographed the Moon last night.
On this very cold but very clear night, the aging Waning Moon shown brightly from the East.
The Moon has now passed by the Sun three times in the sky since the Great North American Eclipse of 2017.
Ghostly clouds and autumn leaves bring you tonight’s Moon on this last day of October.
Sometimes the quickest astrophotography snaps yield surprises. I was not even trying to include the plane, honest!
These early Waning phase days are a reminder that astrophotography can be done all day and all night.