Blue Sky Moon
by terranovabay
Late afternoon Moon in a blue sky on 15 January 2019. Looking forward to the lunar eclipse coming up when this Moon reaches full later in the week.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: eclipse, Moon
Category Archives: Astrophotography
October 2018 Moon-Mars Conjunction
by terranovabay
The Moon and Mars come together in the October 2018 sky, though they are nowhere near each other, it’s all just a close alignment for an observer on Earth at that date and time.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: conjunction, Earth, Mars, Moon
Hazy Lunar Landscape
by terranovabay
A lunar landscape as seen from the backyard through a persistent thin haze obscuring the clarity of the scene. The Montes Jura mountain range surrounds the C-shaped Sinus Iridum in a view looking toward the lunar horizon.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Lunar, Montes Jura, Moon, Sinus Iridum
Looking For Starman
by terranovabay
No sign in the backyard night sky of Elon’s Tesla Roadster nor its David Bowie-inspired passenger. We can only look up and wonder about their lonely journey through the Solar System.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: David Bowie, Elon Musk, Orion, Solar System, Starman, Tesla
Cold Moon Rising
by terranovabay
The second full Moon of January 2018 rose into a cold, iron blue sky at dusk with clouds scudding by blocking the view every now and then. The Moon rises on the eve of a lunar eclipse happening at dawn the next day, 31 January, with the Earth’s shadow just starting to darken the Moon’s face before the Moon sets in the west, at least in what is viewable of the event from Florida. People on the west coast of […]
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Florida, Lunar eclipse, Moon
The Great American Eclipse of 2017
by terranovabay
Views of the solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 as seen from the pollinator garden at Audubon House at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. While totality swept across the continental United States, thrilling millions, down low on peninsular Florida the Moon only eked out a partial eclipse. While totality may have eluded us, this example of heavenly bodies moving stately through their paths in the cosmic clockwork was spectacular in its own right. The Moon made first contact with the […]
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Audubon House, eclipse, Florida, Indian River County, Moon, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Solar Eclipse, Sun, sunspots
Ave Orion
by terranovabay
Living in Florida, there sometimes appears to be only two seasons. One hot, and one not-so-hot. Sadly, the not-so-hot season, which normal people in other places call winter, is all too short. Great masses of cold air fighting their way southward down from the Arctic usually peter out before they can cross the state line, let alone making it halfway down the peninsula to cool all the hotheads clinging desperately to the paradise fantasy. As I am constantly looking up […]
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: constellation, Florida, Orion, winter
Subtle Penumbral Eclipse
by terranovabay
The Moon passed through the edge, the penumbra, of Earth’s shadow leading to a very subtle lunar eclipse on 10 February 2017. A trio of photographs show the progression, which was far more apparent to the camera than it was to the human eye. To paraphrase Jack Kerouac, the Moon, big sad face of infinity.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: eclipse, Jack Kerouac, Lunar eclipse, Moon, penumbral lunar eclipse
Seven Sisters on New Year’s Eve
by terranovabay
The Pleiades (M45) is an open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus visible to the naked eye as a small, foggy patch in the sky from which six or seven individual stars can be faintly seen of the hundreds of stars that make up the cluster. A Greek myth about seven sisters is the origin of the name. The Pleiades are visible from the backyard even in my light polluted sky from where these images were made. A wide […]
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: constellation, Florida, Indian River County, M45, Messier 45, open star cluster, Pleiades, Taurus
Waning SuperMoon
by terranovabay
The waning SuperMoon as seen from the backyard shortly after midnight on 19 November 2016.
Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Florida, Lunar, Moon, Supermoon, terminator, waning
