I tend to take lots of pictures of both the sun and moon. Here are a few from many different places.
What follows are photographs I snapped from my backyard during the April 8, 2024 eclipse.
Halfway to totalityClose to totalityMoments before totalityHow cool is this?!100 carat diamond ringHalfway to normalityLast nibbleBoring old sun – with a couple of sunspotsWaning gibbous moon, April 14, 2024Waning crescent moon, April 16, 2024Sliver of a waning crescent moon, April 17, 2024A blue supermoon, August 31, 2023Pre-Great Conjunction, oblong Saturn above, Jupiter (and 4 moons) below (12.20.20)My Sour-Grapes Conjunction, December 22, 2020December 26, 2020
The actual Great Conjunction, the virtual concurrence of Saturn and Jupiter, was scheduled (by science) on December 21st, but unfortunately, Mother Nature had other ideas and booked cloud cover for the evening instead (read all about in Naturelated, “The (not so?) Great Conjunction”). So, these are before and after pictures, and though disappointing, they are still cool.
A nice picture of the Pleiades, Seven Sisters forever protected by Zeus (as stars)Waning moon and good friend Mars (directly above), September 6, 2020Waning moon, September 6, 2020A very humid nearly full moon, August 31, 2020Full moon, August 2, 2020Jupiter and 4 of its moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), August 2, 2020Waxing moon, July 29, 2020Jupiter and moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, July 29, 2020A tilted (and small) Saturn, its rings turned toward us, July 29, 2020Comet NEOWISE, taken July 16, 2020NEOWISE, July 20, 2020Jupiter and moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (Io is in front), July 16, 2020The super pink moon, April 7, 2020 (from the backyard)A very moony night, July, 2020A funky moon, summer, 2019 (from the backyard)The crescent moon from my front porchFull moon the night after the last total lunar eclipse (January 21, 2019)Full moon through a birdpoop skylight, St. Andrews, Scotland, summer of 2018Crescent moon from our side deck (outside Yellow Springs, Ohio)Waning gibbous moon, Key Largo, March of 2018A nearly full moon through a flowering bougainvillea tree, Key LargoA hazy full moon at Devils Tower in WyomingMoon over Sioux Falls in Sioux Falls, South DakotaMoonrise over Denver, Colorado (from my hotel room)Moonrise over my campsite at Webster State Park, KansasMoonrise, Webster State Park, KansasWaxing crescent moon over my campsite, Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, COThat same moon (just a little closer) Black Canyon of the Gunnison NPFull moonrise over Rocky Mountain NP, ColoradoStrange sunset (perhaps affected by western fires), from our front yardThe same sunset, just a little earlierClosing in on sunset at the Sun Temple, Mesa Verde NP, COOld Orchard Beach, MaineA beautiful nighttime thunderstorm south of our homeThe same thunderstorm
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