Moon

Those of you who have been reading my blog since 2014 have learned that I love photographing the Moon. 

As it happens, we recently had a lunar eclipse occur, so I'll start today's post with some shots taken during that event, which I watched for about an hour or so.  Here, in New Zealand, the Moon was setting, just before dawn, as the eclipse unfolded.  Remember that it started as a full moon.

It disappeared below the horizon shortly after this. 

Although the Moon is tiny in this next eclipse view photo from earlier this year, I like the shot. It was taken from Heather's apartment on the 5th floor of the Vines. She happened upon Jeanne and I taking shots from a lounge on the 5th, and suggested her balcony would be much better. 

This is a shot I took during another eclipse a few years ago.

A friend of ours, Margaret, suggested that this picture deserves to be in a caption-writing contest. Do any of you have a caption? Leave it (them) in a comment if you like. Here are some mine.

'Little Johnny's homemade warhead far exceeded his family's expectations.' 

'Well, we can quit tracking Asteroid Bennu, I guess.'

For these next captions, I'm pretending the Moon is Mars.  Looks kind of like it after all.  

'That had to be Phobos. Deimos wouldn't have made that big a splash.'

'Well, if there is life on Mars, it's extinct now.'  

This is a shot I took about a week ago. I zoomed in for the second and third pictures.  

I'll leave you with this last one, a favorite of mine.  That's at Moonrise, of course.  -djf