It's the first day of November already! Christmas is just around the corner! 😂 Autumn has arrived in my area and the trees are turning color. I got this image the other day on a walk. It's not my best composition ever but I wanted the moon in it and didn't realize it was so centered. I still like it though, hope you do as well.
On Monday, the moon was full and is named the "Flower Moon" because of the abundance of flowers that are visible in May. Because of the name I decided to do something artsy with the image that I took of it that night before I went to bed. Hope you enjoy my take on the Flower Moon.
The other day as I was heading to work there was a lovely sky created by some thunderstorms to the south of us. I had to stop and get a photo and I was pleased that my phone did not blow out the moon for once.
On Wednesday, the moon and Venus were fairly close together in the early evening sky. I had to go out and capture them and share. Fortunately that evening was unseasonably warm as well to make photo taking more pleasant. 😊
I took this image last week while heading home from a bike ride. This was the last "Super Moon" rising up above some grass. The term "super moon" annoys me a bit as they make a big deal out of it and it is barely perceptible. Yes, the moon is a bit closer but it is not rare or really all that much larger than a normal full moon. It does get people interested so I guess that is a good thing. It was a lovely moon rise.
I took this image this past Tuesday evening of the colorful sky to the east as the sun was setting and the moon was rising.
I had forgotten about the eclipse till I was outside the other evening, 9/17, and was reminded so I grabbed my camera and took a few photos. This is the first (left) and last one I took. It never changed very much in about 15 minutes time. It was still interesting and fun to capture. Wish I hadn't blown out the bright part in the first image so badly. 😏
Today's image is the second one I took with my telescope. I was practicing with different eyepieces and the moon was a good subject to use during the day when I could see what I was doing. 😊
The moon and Venus were fairly close to each other last week and I was able to see and capture it. I had gone out to bring in the Oriole's jelly so as not to attract any animals to it during the night and saw this sight. I liked this image with a bit of tree branches in it.
An older moon shot in the blue hour. There was a lunar eclipse last week but I missed seeing it. I've seen a couple and I was too lazy and tired to get up to look. 😁 I'm looking forward to less moonlight because I just got a new lens that I want to try some astrophotography with. Clear skies as well.
Last week, this moon was in the news quite a bit because it was the last "super moon" of the year and it also coincided with the Perseid meteor shower. I didn't see any meteors but I did get this image of the moon. 300mm lens at 800 ISO and 1/160 shutter speed at f11 for detail.
On Sunday evening there was a lunar eclipse occurring. I only photographed the first part of it due to I have photographed a full one before and I am getting older and needed to get to bed as it was a work night. 😄 I only had time to work with one photo but I was rather pleased with it. When viewed large especially, you can see stars in the image as well. Not a sight you can usually photograph in one exposure with a full moon. I thought the color turned out well too. I'll have to share my sequence one day after I have time to process the images I took.
Today's image is a type I don't share often but I was pleased with how it turned out. I meant to share it last week but, time got away from me.. This was a view from my yard in Kansas of the Venus and Moon Conjuction event on November 7. When viewed large I was able to capture some crater definition in the moon. I liked the capture in the blue hour of the evening.
A week ago, on the night of the Winter Solstice, there was the "Great Conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter. While it was neat, I think the hype was a bit over rated. Supposedly they were supposed to be so close it would look like they were touching. Maybe at some point it did look like that, but that is not what I got to see. This image is a composite, both were taken on the 21st but they were too far apart to get in a single frame so I took the liberty of moving them closer together. 😉 The moon was one image and the planets were the second, Jupiter is on the left, Saturn is dimmer. If you have seen any images of the conjunction on the internet where you see the rings of Saturn, those are fake.
Today's images and post is a bit different. Mars has been visible in the sky for awhile now. Last month there was one evening when it and the moon were fairly close together so I was able to capture both. You can see the reddish tint to Mars even though it's rather small in the image.
