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| 9 pm BST - northern sky full of sky trails - busy time at Manchester airport! | 28 day crescent will rise around 4.30 UT tomorrow morning. New moon on 25th |
Lunation 1033 - June 25th - 24th July 2006
low and/or late moons - light skies - mostly positional data and awful photos ;-)
23rd July 2006
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| 9 pm BST - northern sky full of sky trails - busy time at Manchester airport! | 28 day crescent will rise around 4.30 UT tomorrow morning. New moon on 25th |
18th/19th July 2006 - 23 day
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| 23 days - and shrinking - just after 2am BST | Alt 17 Az 82 - here just clearing the trees in the east |
17th/18th July 2006 - 22 day moon - still binocs through window!
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| Lovely phase with Apennines cutting across the terminator and the huge craters from Ptolemaeus southwards on the edge. Alt 19, Az 94 | At this hour 02:18 BST, the rising Pleiades were in the same frame. Stars appeared brighter - several constellations in the east glowing despite the higher moon. |
16th/17th July 2006 - last quarter
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| Caught earlier as cloud bank rolls in high in the east. 2.30 am BST Alt 22, Az 110 | Poor view of last quarter, clouds thickening at this moment |
15/16th July 2006 - 20 day
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| Moon around 4am BST - no clouds, plenty of sky-trails in SE | At 20 days, now alt about 33 | Pleiades (about alt 25) high and faint in coming dawn in NE, thought Venus (alt about 8) might have appeared through the trees! |
14/15th July 2006 - 19 day
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| Around 3 am BST Altitude: 25° 4' 42" Azimuth: 149° 19' 58"
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Through 10x50 binocs |
13th/14th July 2006 - 18 day
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| 18 day moon - higher but later - in SE - in Aquarius around 2.45 BST Altitude: 20° 47' 40" Azimuth: 160° 13' 58" see SkyMap Pro or see Moon Data on my other site |
Rising in NE, the Pleiades at 3 am BST with Venus to follow in about an
hour. Pleiades: Altitude :+13° 20' 37" Azimuth:66° 47' 7" |
11th July 2006 - full moon, low
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| 11th - clearer sky tonight as sun sets. Full
moon later if you can see it!! ... (or even if you can't)
;-) Transit: 2h 12m 20s in Capricorn |
The Buck Moon appeared out of the trees at 11pm BST
in the SE amongst the security lights Phase: 0.988 |
Even higher - but still only just clearing trees.
The brighter stars of Cassiopeia and Perseus were showing to the NE Altitude: 9° 19' 48" Azimuth: 159° 37' 26" |
10th July 2006
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| Saw the Pleiades rising here the other night 10th July - clouds in the east. | and clouds in the west ... |
7th July 2006 - 11 day
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| Light skies in the south east at 21.30 BST where Jupiter will be riding ahead of the 11 day moon (which will be lurking in the trees for the dark hours!!) | Pink clouds in the sun as it goes down in the west closely followed by Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Nights are drawing in now, Brian, but moon is staying low ;-) |
Day 10 - 6th July 2006
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Just caught sight of the pale 10 day moon sneaking around in the low reaches of the sky around 7.30 pm BST |
Shortly afterwards, back come the clouds. Moon's path too low to follow ... |
5th July 2006 - day 9 as was!
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| Boy, did it rain!! |
Day 8 - 4th July 2006
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Ah well - back to normal.- pink clouds with fluffy white ones joining in ... {technical cloud-speak ;-) - see Clouds page on other site for cloud-links} |
First quarter - 3rd July 2006
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Poor offerings still - 7 day moon, chimney and umbrella ;-) RA 12h 47m 55.96s Declination: -7° 33' 2.7" |
In the west - through the open window ... Constellation: Virgo |
Sky clear - and light
10.30pm BST Altitude: 16° 1' 51" |
Very hot, poor image inside ...
Azimuth: 232° 0' 7" |
Day 6 - 2nd July 2006
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6 days - moon from backyard - not happily placed for Tal - and still too light |
This was with the Bresser (hence mirror image) from inside - very hot!!! |
Moon in the west |
1st July2006 - Fuzzy Day 5 moon
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10:15pm BST - clouds drifting over, thickening |
Thin cloud fuzzies the moon (Bresser image from inside) |
30th June 2006 - light sky at night for 4 day moon
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Just a few drifting clouds |
Growing moon - now 4 days old |
29th June 2006 - pale 3 day moon in a pale sky
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First sightings this session - poor yet! Image mirrored |
Sky remains light at 10 pm BST as moon heads for trees |
Photos though window - Bresser scope 20mm |
