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Latest Photographs and Observing Log (low tech)
Backyard Moon made Lunar Photo of the day! - see Chuck Wood's LPOD for March 31st 2007
Lunation 1076: 16 Dec 2009 - 15 Jan 2010
The ever changing shape of the viewed moon ... from 2-day to 25-day
Morning moons, rising moons, setting moons, cloudy moons, misty moons ...
Some of this session's Lunar shapes (not adjusted for size or angle)
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1) WAXING: the lunar morning ... starting with a 2-day moon on the 19th of December
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| Full - before eclipse | Around maximum eclipse |
2) FULL: lunar midday ... moving on through the Blue Moon Eclipse on New Year's Eve ...
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| 17 day | 18 day | 20 day | 22 day | 25 day |
3) WANING: lunar evening encroaching ... on through to a faint 25-day moon on January 10th ... then more clouds!
Lunar night - next new moon around 07:13 UT on January 15th ...
Fuller set of phases on my first website
From the NASA Terra Satellite - United Kingdom under Ice!!
2010/007 - 01/07 at 11 :50 UTC
Snow across Great Britain
Satellite: Terra
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response
3rd January 2010
Moon and Mars tonight! Screenshot from free software from STELLARIUM open source
Morning Skies
07.45 - sun about to rise SE, 17 day moon going down around NW
2nd January 2010
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Was looking for Mars and the 17-day Moon - found them in a brief break in the clouds! Look closely ;-)
1st January 2010
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Skies were still clear as 2010 arrived!! And even clearer as the moon went to bed around 09:30 UT in the NW
New Year's Eve - Second Full moon of the month rises about 15:30 UT in the NE (cloud here)
sometimes nick-named a 'Blue Moon', and a Partial Eclipse as well to end 2009!!
And here it is!! - See more photos and a Bresser Skylux Eclipse shot on the Blue Moon page on side index
Details on Partial Lunar Eclipse from Spaceweather PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE: On Dec. 31st, the Moon will dip into Earth's shadow for a partial lunar eclipse. The event is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia. At maximum eclipse, around 19:24 UT, approximately 10% of the Moon will be darkly shadowed. [animated preview] [visibility map] |
And from the satellites at the Earth Observatory - a reminder of our Blue Planet and its life ...
NASA image by Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Team.
From: NASA’s Aqua satellite - for more details follow the links
"An expansive bloom of phytoplankton (single-celled, plant-like organisms) traced colorful swirls across the South Pacific Ocean between New Zealand (left) and the Chatham Islands (right) on December 23, 2009. ."
30 December 2009 - Lashing rain and gales for the 13 day moon
28 December 2009 - 11 day moon near Pleiades and Hyades - and cloud! Heavy rain on the 29th!
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Clear skies as the 11 day moon rose high in the East - but the clouds soon followed
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There were brief clear spells later apart from when trying to catch the nearby Pleiades and Hyades.
Aldebaran was clear and the halo effect showing
27 December 2009 - mist, snow and clouds .... 10-day moon
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Icy, mist and snow - did no long viewing ... ;-)
25 December 2009 - Christmas Day SUN in the freezing fog
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Fog and Ice for Christmas Day - and a low Winter Sun after lunch ...
24 December 2009 - Christmas Eve snow and clouds .... 7-day moon
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22 December 2009 - STILL in the snow .... 5-day moon
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Brief glimpses of the 5-day Moon showing one of the Moon-faces in the cloud! Jupiter low over the outhouse roof
Moon and Sun ...
19 December 2009 - in the snow .... 2-day moon
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Didn't think I'd catch the 2-day moon after the snow clouds at sunset - but there it was in a break later ...
December 17, 2009: No - not our moon but Saturn's! We can spot Titan with binoculars but NASA's Cassini Mission gets much closer 8-)
More details from Nasa: Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins. More on http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsreleases/newsrelease20091217/ And BBC Science news: BBC News - 'Boat' could explore Saturn moon |
Dawn on the 17th Dec 2009 - New moon for this lunation now trails behind the rising sun in the SE
18th Dec - young moon still hugs the SE-SW horizon over the snow, but too low for me yet!
First Quarter moon will be high in the sky by Christmas Eve
August, Sept, Oct, November ... 
Sorry
folks - Menieres strikes again ... and again... will be back when I get a gap ...
thanks for the emails - will reply when I can ...
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