Ah, i finally know how to make photos in the dark.
The right setting, exposure time, a tripod and
patience.
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2009
Venus and the Moon
Ah, i finally know how to make photos in the dark.
The right setting, exposure time, a tripod and
patience.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Snow angels
Never too old for snow angels.
Last year around this time my friend Anne came out to make some snow angels.
It is snowing. I ski the 'beach trail' and with that fresh snow the skiing is excellent again. My skis scraping the ice underneath. Nothing really much to tell. All is grey and white. Towards the North-West there is some stripes of blue sky above the mountains.
I hear the birds, but barely see them.
This weekend the Grosbeak male was brilliant red. It is mating season and i suppose their colors show more.
What else was brilliant this weekend;
Venus! Yes that shining star,(planet) in the South-West in the evening. Apparently it was at its highest point in the sky last Wednesday. Now slowly going down until it disappears in March, till it becomes a morning star again.
It will get brighter though, in the next weeks. According to something i read (i forget where) on February 19 it will be most bright.
I always have to somehow wrap my mind about these things to understand it fully.
But i think this is how it is. Venus spins around the sun closer to it then us. Venus is coming closer to us. We are both on the same side of the sun. Where its shape actually becomes more crescent, because it is so close to the Earth on Feb 19 it is most brilliant. Picture the spinning of the solar system. Pfff when you get it ,i'll get it.
Christopher noticed i had gotten some of the facts wrong, i took those out. And do you want to understand it better, please read his comment below here, click comment.
I hope i get this right; but we only see Venus in the evening or morning, because it spins closer around the sun then we do. So we actually have to face towards the sun a bit in order to see it.
I'll just enjoy watching it, its out again as i am typing this
Last year around this time my friend Anne came out to make some snow angels.
It is snowing. I ski the 'beach trail' and with that fresh snow the skiing is excellent again. My skis scraping the ice underneath. Nothing really much to tell. All is grey and white. Towards the North-West there is some stripes of blue sky above the mountains.
I hear the birds, but barely see them.
This weekend the Grosbeak male was brilliant red. It is mating season and i suppose their colors show more.
What else was brilliant this weekend;
Venus! Yes that shining star,(planet) in the South-West in the evening. Apparently it was at its highest point in the sky last Wednesday. Now slowly going down until it disappears in March, till it becomes a morning star again.
It will get brighter though, in the next weeks. According to something i read (i forget where) on February 19 it will be most bright.
I always have to somehow wrap my mind about these things to understand it fully.
But i think this is how it is. Venus spins around the sun closer to it then us. Venus is coming closer to us. We are both on the same side of the sun. Where its shape actually becomes more crescent, because it is so close to the Earth on Feb 19 it is most brilliant. Picture the spinning of the solar system. Pfff when you get it ,i'll get it.
Christopher noticed i had gotten some of the facts wrong, i took those out. And do you want to understand it better, please read his comment below here, click comment.
I hope i get this right; but we only see Venus in the evening or morning, because it spins closer around the sun then we do. So we actually have to face towards the sun a bit in order to see it.
I'll just enjoy watching it, its out again as i am typing this
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Venus and the Moon
Venus and the Moon.
I get so excited about a thing like this. Ain't it beautiful?
According to the Skywatchers calender, Jupiter and Mercury are on the lower right of the moon. I will go out again, dress this time(i took this photo walking around on my socks) and look for them with the binoculars, I let you know.
No, can't find them. Did they go down below the horizon?
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