Saturday photoblogging: more of the full moon in Buenos Aires

yeah, yeah, yeah... i've got a thing about the moon, and no smart-ass comments either...


Full moon, 8:12 p.m.,
Argentina Regional Time,
Buenos Aires, 22 March 2008


Full moon, 8:30 p.m.,
Argentina Regional Time,
Buenos Aires, 22 March 2008

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A few days of photoblogging

Sunset, high desert, 21 December, 17:52


Moon, high desert, 22 December, 18:21


Sunset, high desert, 18 December, 17:40

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Full moon through high, thin overcast, 24 November

6:19 p.m., PST


6:52 p.m., PST

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For Thanksgiving, a little break from the gloom

this is nice...

November 22, 2007 - Happy Thanksgiving


Earth rise by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on October 18, 2007, successfully performed the world's first high-definition image of an Earth rise by the lunar explorer KAGUYA," which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 62 miles (100 km) on October 18, 2007. Image © 2007 by SELENE Team, JAXA, NHK.

Japan's unmanned, robotic Kaguya spacecraft currently in orbit around Earth's moon was launched two months ago. Its scientific mission, Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE), nicknamed Kaguya, is to study the origin and evolution of the Moon. NASA adds: “An astronaut standing on the lunar surface would never see the Earth rise, since the moon always keeps the same side toward the Earth. This Earth rise and the famous Earth rise captured 40 years ago by the crew of Apollo 8, only occurs for observers in lunar orbit.”

(thanks to earthfiles...)

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Full moon with rainbow, high desert, 18:36 PDT

without a hi-tech camera, i couldn't get this shot to turn out like i wanted, so i will attempt to fill in the blanks... there was a high, thin, broken, herringbone overcast in front of the moon... the moon had just risen over the ridgeline to the east of the house, and was completely encircled by a bright rainbow, a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight... it has continued and now, over an hour later, the intensity has increased such that there is a faint SECOND rainbow encircling the first...



i did some searching to come up with a pic that approximates what i am even now looking at and discovered that the correct term for the phenomenon is "lunar corona..." this pic doesn't have the double corona but it's a pretty faithful representation of what is shining outside my window right now...



all i can say is that it's quite awesome...

[UPDATE]

oh, very cool... i DID find a pic of a double-ring corona...



fantastic...!

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Thursday photoblogging: waxing gibbous moon, 98% full, 8:45 p.m. PDT

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Friday photoblogging: 96% full moon, last night, March 1

for over an hour late morning yesterday, the skies opened up here with a genuine deluge... it rained less torrentially until mid-afternoon, and, by evening, it had cleared off enough to have another sensational buenos aires sunset... the moon has been approaching full, and this is a photo i took of it last night, shining through a high, thin overcast outside my kitchen door...

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