Harvest Moon at 99.8% full rising through the clouds last night.
The Harvest Moon and Mars at 6:00 am this morning.
Harvest Moon In Whipped Cream Clouds
Category: Night
Services In A TUFF SHED®
White Oaks, New Mexico doesn’t need no stinking cathedral or post-bank-style building for worship services. A TUFF SHED® with a steeple does just fine.
A colorful cacti in the churchyard, and a second TUFF SHED® used for fellowship hall.
The Harvest Moon rising last night with Saturn peeking through the clouds on the right. Saturn in the center photo. The Harvest Moon shining through the clouds.
There was lightning to the north last night. Saturn and its moons in plaid. The Harvest moon finally rose above the clouds.
9:30, 1:30, 5:30
9:30 pm last night. Jupiter is in the lower left of the photo, and Saturn is close to the right edge of the photo.
Jupiter and four moons at 9:30 pm last night.
The sky straight overhead at 9:30 pm last night. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter and three of its moons at 1:30 am this morning. I woke up and 1:30 am and remembered I had left the drip systems on, so I got up and turned off the drip system and photographed Jupiter. I forgot my iPhone, so I didn’t get any wide-angle photos of the sky at 1:30 am.
The sky looking east at 5:30 am this morning. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter with three of its moons at 5:30 am this morning. It’s interesting how the moons change positions through the night.
The sky straight overhead at 5:30 am this morning. You can see the Pleiades and Mars in the upper right side of the photo. Click on the image to enlarge it.
The clouds at sunset this evening.
Stone House On The Prairie
Here’s a close-up of the stone house in the landscape on Friday’s post.
Night sky at 2:00 am. The Pleiades is in the lower center and Mars is below the Pleiades. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter and four of its moons. The sky was clear last night, but I could not get Jupiter’s stripes, and the photos of Saturn were blobs. There must have been an atmospheric disturbance obscuring clear shots of the planets.
Sliver Moon In Pink
Pulchritudinous
Moon, Mars & The Pleiades
There was an alignment of the moon, Mars, and the Pleiades this morning, but the thin cloud cover almost blocked out Mars and the Pleiades in the shots where the moon has details. Click on the photos to see more details.
Dawn
Jupiter with four moons and deep space
Crap
Down by the river where we like to go
Walked a coyote wouldn’t you know
He stopped and he squatted and gave it a squeeze
Not a care in the world he was quite pleased
Bunny Log
Hare date 8-15 in the blessed year of our mother goddess Freyja two-thousand twenty-two. The human who walks around shooting everyone with a Bazooka was trying to irrigate. After the water that came flooding in, and forced me out of my culvert, stopped, the bazooka-wielding Paparazzo walked out to the Acequia Madre and discovered the water had stopped running in the mother ditch. Word had it that the giant diesel pumps up north that fill the Acequia Madre from the Rio Grande went south, so now il Paparazzo has to finish irrigating in the wee hours of the morning under the crescent smile of Máni.
¡Adios muchachos y muchachas!
More Moon Madness
A clear dawn
The Rio Grande and Sandias at sunset last night.
The Rio Grande reflecting
Odd flower out. Echinacea in Brown-Eyed Susans
The moon on the left was taken with my iPhone through a telescope* at 11:00 pm last night. The moon on the right was taken with the Bazooka at 6:00 am this morning. Click on the photos to see the details.
An attempt to get Jupiter and its moons through a telescope with the iPhone*. It came out nicely abstract.
On the left are Jupiter and its moons taken at 11:30 pm last night. On the right are Jupiter and its moons taken at 6:00 am this morning. Both photos were taken with the Bazooka.
Jupiter taken with the Bazooka at 11:30 pm last night. You can almost see the patterns in Jupiter’s clouds.
Jupiter and the moon at 6:00 am this morning.
Saturn is at its peak opposition to the sun tonight. However, a storm rolled in, and the sky is overcast, so I am going to have to strike photographing Saturn tonight.
*I held my iPhone lenses to the eyepiece on the telescope. It’s difficult to align the correct lens and get a really good photo with three lenses on the iPhone. The moon came out pretty well. Jupiter was another matter.
Off Center & Not Even 