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Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moon. Show all posts

Conjunction of December 2008

Posted by Dave Smith On 12/02/2008 10:20:00 PM 1 comments

We had overcast skies and not much of a good view last night, but tonight, I was greeted with a much better view of the conjunction of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus:


A lovely sight...

Great sequence of photos from the Lunar Eclipse

Posted by Dave Smith On 3/05/2007 09:52:00 AM 0 comments

The Topografiando blog links to an excellent collage of photos posted to Flickr of the recent lunar eclipse, showing the sequence the earth's shadow as it passed across the moon. Our European neighbors were definitely more fortunate than us here, and many thanks to them for sharing their photos.

Lunar Eclipse?

Posted by Dave Smith On 3/03/2007 09:39:00 PM 0 comments


As a longtime amateur astronomer, I of course stepped outside to look for the moonrise, and the distinctive color of the lunar eclipse, but was only greeted by an overcast sky and a few flakes of snow. However, Ed Parsons was good enough to post a picture from his homestead of Teddington, UK (right)...

Truly magnificent, and many thanks to Ed for sharing. He was, of course a bit more fortunate than us in terms of timing:


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