Two Clusters and a Planet Mars will be the active party in a series of interesting encounters with the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters this month. They are well up in the southwestern sky after sunset. Mars is nearest the Pleiades in the first week of March and crosses an imaginary line between the Pleiades … Continue reading Heads UP! for March 2021
Month: February 2021
Second Shot – a day late
An extended storm blocked my view of the Moon on Thursday and Friday. Saturday evening, the clouds started to break up. Now, I'll need to get the photo from earlier this month and tonight's photo to the same number of pixels to compare their sizes. Photoshop Elements not giving me the number of pixels in … Continue reading Second Shot – a day late
Going to get my second shot!
I’m going to try to get my second shot on Friday. Oh, not the vaccine - I mean my comparison photo of the Moon. I got the first shot earlier this month when the Moon was near perigee at last quarter (see earlier post). If I can get a photo near apogee near first quarter, … Continue reading Going to get my second shot!
Last quarter moon near perigee
Today is Wednesday, February 4th. Finally got some breaks in the clouds left over from the slow-moving storm that dumped a foot and half of snow earlier this week. Like the loony bird that was 'coo-coo for cocco puffs', I'm nuts about our Moon. But today there is a method to my madness, or at … Continue reading Last quarter moon near perigee
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