Tag: Moon
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My Latest Astrophoto: Jupiter!
It seems that nights out in the observatory are few and far between these days as the Venn diagram of free nights, no forest fires and good weather is rarely in my favor this year. Between forest fires, a very cloudy monsoon season and just not having a ton of free nights, I’ve only managed…
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Latest Astrophotos: 7 Pictures of the Moon!
Before I get to the main point of this post and show you my awesome new 7 pictures of the moon, I wanted to make a quit apology for not posting in the last two weeks. My life has been turned on its head as I got hired for a new job (software developer) so…
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My Latest Astrophotography Shots: the Moon!
I always dislike this part of the lunar cycle because the amount of light reflected off of the moon makes it much more difficult to shoot a lot of the deep space objects I typically like to try to image like galaxies and nebulas. If I do any astrophotography near the full moon, I usually…
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My Pictures of The Moon and Saturn
While I have started posting a little more often, I don’t think I have mentioned lately that I recently took up astrophotography as one of my main hobbies. While the night skies have largely been clouds here this summer, there has been the very rare night that they haven’t been too bad so when we…
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My Super Blood Moon Eclipse Picture
Hopefully you got to go out last night and see the incredible lunar eclipse that was a supermoon and a blood moon. I helped run an event with my local astronomical society and we had probably the biggest turnout we have ever seen with probably somewhere around 400 people showing up. It was crazy! A…
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Times for this weekend’s Lunar Eclipse
I don’t know about you, but I am really excited for this weekend’s (September 27-28th) lunar eclipse which will feature a blood red supermoon! I will be helping staff an event for it with my local astronomical society but for those that just want to check it out from their backyard, below is a chart…