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Earthshine

2019/08/29 by terranovabay

No, this is not an eclipse. Earthshine is a fun phenomena that mimics the bright light from the full Moon illuminated the Earth but in reverse. In this case, a crescent Moon waxing or waning near the time of a new Moon has the shadowed part of the Moon lit up by the reflected light from the Earth, which in the lunar sky is bright and almost full. An extraterrestrial interchange from what Earthbound observers are used to seeing with […]

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Crescent Moon, Earthshine, Full Moon, Moon, New Moon

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Gazing into the universe

2019/05/06 by terranovabay

The Milky Way rises as seen from the beach while waiting for the launch of CRS-17.

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: CRS-17, Galaxy, Milky Way

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Wolf Eats Moon

2019/01/22 by terranovabay

When I was growing up the Moon was just called the Moon. Boy, was I wrong! Quick to boil up the minutiae on everything and anything, the Internet taught me via The Old Farmer’s Almanac web site that January’s full Moon is called the Full Wolf Moon because Native American astronomers gave names to each full Moon of the year descriptive of that particular time of year. So along with being the first full Moon of 2019, the aptly named […]

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Beehive Cluster, Cancer the Crab, Earth, Full Moon, Full Wolf Moon, Lunar eclipse, M44

Blue Sky Moon

2019/01/15 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

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October 2018 Moon-Mars Conjunction

2018/10/23 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

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Hazy Lunar Landscape

2018/08/05 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

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Looking For Starman

2018/02/13 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

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Cold Moon Rising

2018/01/30 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

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The Great American Eclipse of 2017

2017/08/21 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

2017/08/12 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

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Category Archives: Astrophotography

Earthshine

Gazing into the universe

Wolf Eats Moon

Blue Sky Moon

October 2018 Moon-Mars Conjunction

Hazy Lunar Landscape

Looking For Starman

Cold Moon Rising

The Great American Eclipse of 2017

Ave Orion

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