Monday 21 January 2019

ASTIGMATIC OBSERVATIONS: A RARE MOON

I was awake at 'stupid o'clock' this morning, snatched the camera and snapped away on various settings. They are by no means perfect, but here is a selection of my results. I was SO lucky to see it at all! The conditions were almost perfect: clear, cold skies; brilliant stars and hanging - strangely at odds with its companions, - this extraordinary rust-coloured globe.







I photographed what I could see for about one hour, and the last one was taken through the closed window as I was feeling the chill, hence the 'echo' effect. The sky was also beginning to mist over with streaks of cloud.


If you didn't manage to see this marvellous event, I hope you will enjoy my brief glimpses.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, you were lucky! I was very sorry to have missed the occasion. The photos are quite magical. It's interesting to imagine what our ancestors would have made of the 'rust coloured globe'.

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    1. Thank you very much Mike. What an interesting comment, and I guess they would have attributed a great deal more 'magic' to such a cosmic event than we do today. Observing the wonders of the dark skies is always uplifting, as well as thought-provoking. I hope you have a great day and it's not as cold there as it is here, but at least on this side of Dartmoor there is virtually no snow... :)

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