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.
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.
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I always enjoy your moon pictures! and you got quite a bonus this year with two eclipses! Was the earlier eclipse this year that you snapped from Heather's apartment also just before sunrise? From what I remember about your sky bridge, you would have to be looking westerly in that picture.
ReplyDeleteHi Dianne, thanks for the comment and questions. I took the picture from Heather's apartment at about 10 p.m. The moon was rising at that time, not setting as it was this time. So we're actually looking eastward, over Auckland and you can just make out the Sky Tower on the horizon. I am pleased that now I have pictures of the eclipsed moon 'coming and going,' so to speak.
ReplyDeleteAhhh... yes I can make out the Sky Tower now! Take a look at the Astronomy Picture of the Day for Sept 12: it shows the recent eclipse sequence in both hemispheres.
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