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Day 225

Thursday, August 18, 2016

More Perseids to come!  But first, the full moonrise that wasn’t… I headed out to watch the Moon rise last night.  It was mere hours from being full! Not much was visible through the clouds and smoke on the horizon.  Then I saw a reflection in the camera… There was a quite spectacular sunset going […]

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Day 224: The Perseid Meteor Shower Part 1

Friday, August 12, 2016

There is an annual event where the Earth swings through a trail of rubble left behind from a comet (there are several, actually) called the Perseid Meteor Shower.  We see this as shooting stars (meteors) for a night or two in August. From The New York Times: “The Perseids occur when Earth runs into pieces […]

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Day 211

Friday, July 29, 2016

I went out to play in the backyard last night.  I was using the M2 with the 22mm f2.0 lens, which is the fastest lens I have right now.  There was lots of ambient light to help illuminate the tres, but I did a little light painting with a small flashlight too. *** *** *** […]

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Day 173

Monday, June 20, 2016

A so-called Strawberry Moon tonight.  It only happens once every 19 years or so, that the Full Moon coincides with the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. On the road to my secret viewing spot! As the Moon started to come up, I made these two photos.  They are pretty much the same […]

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Day 1, 2016!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

The start of 8 years of a photo a day! This image is actually from the day after Christmas, with the setting of the Full Moon over the malting plant north of town. Happy New Year! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana!  {!-{>

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Day 365

Sunday, January 3, 2016

On the last day of the year I went out early to catch the sunrise.  I got the Moon first! This is with my 75-300L lens, at 300mm. And this is that same lens at 300mm with a 2x teleconverter, making it a 600mm.  This one is resized to fit my 1440×960 format I mostly use […]

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Day 359: Christmas, Part 1!

Friday, December 25, 2015

More on the festivities and fun, but first: the First Christmas full Moon since 1977! Hey, wait a minute…that is a leaf in our Mountain Ash tree…Here it is! Not to worry, that shadow at the top isn’t a giant alien spaceship or a storm from.  I was shooting through the fairly bare branches of […]

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Day 331

Saturday, November 28, 2015

I went out really early this morning to photograph the moonlight on the river.  Not quite what I was expecting…{!-{> ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 330

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving! I got up at sunrise this morning and found the full moon setting. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 323

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Back on the 27th of September there was a total lunar eclipse. That is where the Moon moves through the Earth’s shadow and turns completely red! We went out to shoot the Moon with Friend Walter. These are some of my photos of the event. This is the Moon approaching “totality”, or when it is […]

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