...when the sun nears setting as I'm driving home from work, which means I sometimes see some cool things, like today. As I rode up Rte24N, I glanced over to catch the sun developing a pillar and a pair of sundogs. I rushed over to the Lake Nippenicket parking lot as quickly as I could and took some shots.
Here's a two-panel panorama of the sun phenomena this afternoon. Photos taken with a cheapo Kodak C613 pocket camera on its last legs and stitched in Hugin:
As the sun set the pillar came and went, and this is the last vestige of it:
Further on my way home it dawned on me that it might be an ideal time to catch a young crescent moon, and I was right. I stopped at my local western-sky stomping ground and scanned the advancing twilight for my prey. Success was first found in binos, then easily naked-eye. Here's a grainy shot of a cow with a party hat on jumping over the moon. Photo taken with the same camera stretched to the max, optical and digital zooms cranked all the way, 35mm equivalent of 540mm:
Hope you enjoy,
Mike M.
It's That Time of Year Again...
It's That Time of Year Again...
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." - Anaxagoras
Re: It's That Time of Year Again...
Mike your photography skills are great and so is your imagination. But, anyone can see that's a rabbit jumping over the moon> . Thanks for the post
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Ioptron IEQ 45 Pro mount
Ioptron tripier
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Ioptron tripod
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Unitron 3 inch equatorial mount W/ tracking motor and tripod
Restored ED 102 Vixen ss Doublet
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Fantastic images, Mike.
I especially like the Cairn Terrier attacking the Moon!
Bill G.
I especially like the Cairn Terrier attacking the Moon!
Bill G.
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Total.Sol.Eclipse,7/10/72 from Nova Scotia.Annular Sol. Eclipse '94,
Trans.of Venus 2004&2012.,ShoeLevy crash into Jupiter '94.
4/25/66 fireball-9 mag.,SN2011fe,N2012aw,DelphN2013.
Total.Sol.Eclipse,7/10/72 from Nova Scotia.Annular Sol. Eclipse '94,
Trans.of Venus 2004&2012.,ShoeLevy crash into Jupiter '94.
4/25/66 fireball-9 mag.,SN2011fe,N2012aw,DelphN2013.
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Thank you everyone! Rabbits, Cairn Terriers...cloud imaginings are all in the eye of the beholder!
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." - Anaxagoras
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Sweet thanks for sharing
Clear skies,
Mark
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LXD75 w/ #497 autostar Hypertuned
Antares 8" f/5 Newt
Antares 4" f/15 "Vixen Spec" long focus refractor
Orion 4" f/7 ED refractor
Astro-Tech 65mm Quad APO
and so much more
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Mike,
That Cairn Terrier is the stuff of my nightmares every time we visit my brother-in-law's house.
It jumps up at you every time you enter the house, scratching and yipping uncontrollably!!
Your image brought great comfort to me; I'd like to send that dog to the MOON!!!
BG
That Cairn Terrier is the stuff of my nightmares every time we visit my brother-in-law's house.
It jumps up at you every time you enter the house, scratching and yipping uncontrollably!!
Your image brought great comfort to me; I'd like to send that dog to the MOON!!!
BG
Comets:40, Best Meteor shwr: Leonids '01, Best Aurora:Oct. '03.
Total.Sol.Eclipse,7/10/72 from Nova Scotia.Annular Sol. Eclipse '94,
Trans.of Venus 2004&2012.,ShoeLevy crash into Jupiter '94.
4/25/66 fireball-9 mag.,SN2011fe,N2012aw,DelphN2013.
Total.Sol.Eclipse,7/10/72 from Nova Scotia.Annular Sol. Eclipse '94,
Trans.of Venus 2004&2012.,ShoeLevy crash into Jupiter '94.
4/25/66 fireball-9 mag.,SN2011fe,N2012aw,DelphN2013.
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Beautiful pix, Mike. I don't know why, but I wasn't getting post info from the ASSNE board.
Tom
Tom
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"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur