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Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon, Nature, Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2012
It was a wonderful evening to go worm hunting. That’s Worm Moon hunting! With great weather upon us I took advantage of it and chased down the full Worm Moon last night. This time trying to get it coming up in back of the historic New London’s Ledge Lighthouse. Everything was going to plan until [...]
Posted in Americana, Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon, Nature, Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2012
If comets, asteroids, planets, and winter storms can be named, I could name my own moon images. Keeping it local I present to you for the first time (drum roll please)…..The February Castle Moon, Meriden, Connecticut! The sun was about to go down, and the “Golden Hour” of photography was approaching. I set up my [...]
Posted in astrophotography, Moon on Dec 26th, 2011
I had a chance to get a shot of a nice pairing of the 2% cresent moon and the planet Venus. The weather was cooperating and I had a nice location picked out in Hartford. I had been there before when there was a 3 planet conjunction a few years ago. Tonight was a sucess [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon on Nov 21st, 2010
The clouds were slowly coming in, and the moon was coming up. In November it’s named the Beaver Moon. This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers [...]
I have been trying to capture this lunar transit for a number of years, and unexpentantly I managed to capture it tonight without any warning. While looking at the moon at the town green in Marlborough, Ct I saw a number of aircraft flying near the moon at about 7:00pm. Just by chance I took [...]
Posted in astrophotography, Moon on Mar 17th, 2010
It was 58 degrees outside on March 17th. Perfectly clear skies. No reason not to go out and enjoy a nice evening of some simple but elegant astronomy. A 4% Waxing Cresent Moon was setting in the west just after sunset. A perfect time for some moon pictures! Check out what I got in my [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon, public outreach, sun on Jan 24th, 2010
It was a rare January Saturday afternoon when you can go out and do some comfortable Solar Observing. There was a slight breeze but crystal clear skies as I set up my solar observing setup in Farley Field in Marlborough, Ct. Within minutes I had not one, but two sunspot complexes with in view. Sunpot [...]
Posted in astrophotography, Moon, Science on Nov 30th, 2009
As promised here is the video I shot with the new Nikon D300s camera. Same subject as yesterday, the moon. Shot at 990mm with my Vixen Refractor Telescope, and processed in Final Cut Pro, saved as a Quicktime file and uploaded to Vimeo. The zoom into the crater Tycho was done in Final Cut Pro, [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon on Nov 29th, 2009
It was a great night tonight to have another round of testing the Nikon D300s. With temperatures in the low 50′s, and a 93% Waxing Gibbous Moon shining outside I gave the camera another workout. Be sure to click on the image to get a larger view of it. First the image below is at [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon on Nov 4th, 2009
I was on my way to work this morning when I managed to grab another picture of the “almost full” moon at about 7:00 am. It’s a day after the full moon and it is getting a lot colder out early in the morning now. I managed to capture this shot from State Street in [...]
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