moon

Gibbous

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The moon, a day past full, in the blue morning sky

I took the recy­cling out before work this morn­ing, and saw the moon high and bright in the west­ern sky, so I grabbed my cam­era and snapped a few glam­our shots.

I always pre­fer the moon just before or just after it’s full, because I love being able to see the shad­ows of its craters and peaks.

A shadow on the moon

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The moon, slowly being covered by Earth's shadow

I set up on the deck last night for an hour or so to get the lunar eclipse.

Full size (about 7MB)

The images in the panora­ma above were tak­en at 2‑minute inter­vals (with occa­sion­al adjust­ment to the cam­er­a’s aim). They’re all 250mm, f/5.6, and either 1/100s, ISO 100 (the cres­cents) or 1s, 200 ISO (the rud­dy disks).

Since I was already out there, and the sky was clear, I set up my 2nd cam­era, point­ing straight up, to get some star trails. (And satel­lite tracks aplen­ty, some irid­i­um flares, and maybe a very small mete­or or two.)

Star trails, as seen from my deck

This one’s made up of ~630 images, each 11mm, f/2.8, 5s. (I did­n’t check the ISO on these, but I’d guess it’s in the 100–400 range.)

The moon, and some frost

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white frost on dark branches against a clear blue sky

The wan­ing gib­bous moon looked pret­ty, so I snapped some quick pho­tos of it this morn­ing while my toast was toasting.

The moon, looking sepia in a black sky

And then, while I was work­ing, I noticed that the trees all had a thin lay­er of frost on them that stood out nice­ly against the blue sky, so I once again grabbed my camera.

white frost on dark branches against a clear blue sky

This work­ing from home thing, man, it’s pret­ty sweet.