Almost Full Moon, Last of September, 2020
Clear and cold on the final night of September, the Moon was incredibly bright, with strengthening Mars following just to the East.
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Clear and cold on the final night of September, the Moon was incredibly bright, with strengthening Mars following just to the East.
Read MoreThis was the closest I’ve seen a planet to the Moon in the few years of this blog.
Read MoreContinuing the series of images from this past Friday night were shots taken of Jupiter and Saturn.
Read MoreBetween my first sighting of C/2020 F3 on the 13th of July to my second sighting on the 16th was a period of unusable cloud cover.
Read MoreA comet and two planets, not too bad for one night.
Read MoreToday’s story begins on the prior night, when the Moon was an even thinner crescent.
Read MoreI have been guessing, and I think correctly, that most people do not realize the Moon is visible in morning daylight.
Read MoreHere is another “by chance” image. I was outside early evening to photograph the rising Moon with my Canon EOS, to get a daytime shot.
Read MoreI knew I had to act quickly to photograph them, as they were moving fast and I didn’t know how long they would be visible or if more were coming.
Read MoreI took a number of images of the nebula, playing around with the exposure and ISO settings.
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