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International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) 2011 is on Saturday, October 8! The goal of InOMN is to engage lunar science and education communities, amateur astronomers, space enthusiasts, and the general public in annual lunar observation campaigns that share the excitement of lunar science and exploration. Join an event near you, or create your own! [...] There was a total lunar eclipse in December that was visible (through the clouds) in Houston! A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth blocks the sun’s light from hitting the surface of the full Moon. Because the orbit of the Moon is slightly inclined, it doesn’t happen every month, so it’s a special event [...] We did a lot of walking around San Francisco at night, which gave me a lot of opportunities to get some long-exposure photos. I really liked the giant bow and arrow on the edge of the water near the Bay Bridge. Very cool!
[...] We had a pretty strong cold front blow through starting Thanksgiving evening. By last night, all the clouds had gone and the wind had died down, and we had a clear, crisp, calm, beautiful sky. I shot a picture of the moon as soon as it rose above the trees. The wind has picked up [...] I went back to Johnson Space Center to watch the hot air balloon glow in the RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival. The balloon pilots lit their burners at the same time or alternated turning the burners on and off after the sun had gone down. It was too cool!
[...] We went to Galveston to try to catch a view of Comet McNaught several weeks ago. We were unsuccessful because of cloud cover and light pollution, but I did manage to get a few decent pictures while it was still dark. The Milky Way
[...] Over Memorial Day, Em, Juliane, and I headed up to Nacogdoches to get Em and Juliane scuba certified. We had some free time in the evenings, so one night we went out to my old stomping grounds, the Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory. We got to use the 18-inch telescope (used by NASA to [...] We had a rare low-humidity evening here in Houston, and I caught a decent photo of a first quarter moon!
When we were in Austin in October, I took a few pictures of Emily downtown and at the Capitol at night.
[...] After seeing Phantom of the Opera in downtown Houston, Em and I did an impromptu photo shoot by a fountain across the street from the theater. There was some uplighting from some glass squares on the sidewalk, and then by the fountain there was a bright greenish backlight. I used my external flash [...] |
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