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The Hunter’s moon rises nearly or completely full over three successive nights at nearly the same time each night. On Eastern Daylight Time this year, the nights of the 27th, 28th, and 29th, at 5:21, 5:57, and 6:35, respectively. Full moon is today at 3:50 p.m. EDT, but this shot was taken last night right [...] [...] 
The 2012 harvest moon occurs tonight at 11:19 p.m. EDT. Only 395,493 km from Earth tonight. Libration, as you can see, is quite southern (see how far the bright crater Tycho is from the bottom edge?), and a bit of the eastern limb is more visible as well (if you know your selenography, you can [...] [...] 
The second full moon in August (well, about 12 hours before full). I found my digiscope camera! Despite what the Clear Sky Clock for Boca Raton says, this evening had nothing but high clouds and haze overhead, so while the naked eye views through the eyepiece were steady and beautiful, the camera view was a [...] [...] This year and next year, the month of August will bring you the two different definitions of the term blue moon. As you know, every 2.7 years the twelve months of the calendar feature thirteen full moons. There are only twelve full moon names, though, so when a “year” has thirteen moons, you have to [...] [...] 
July’s full moon is sometimes known as the Thunder Moon. No thunder tonight here in Boca, apart from a few wiseacres testing their squibs for tomorrow’s celebration of Independence Day. But we do have plenty of moisture in the air, robbing my pictures of clarity. Nevertheless, here is this month’s full moon: [...] 
Hello, there! Now that we’re already a couple of days past the new moon, it’s high time once again for the monthly snapshot of the full moon. (I say snapshot because that’s really what it is. If and when I ever get an imaging system that works with my telescope gear, I’ll “upgrade” the name [...] [...] 
May’s full moon occurs, at least for North Americans, on a relatively misunderstood holiday (Cinco de Mayo, which is not the Mexican equivalent to the Fourth of July, but does celebrate an unlikely victory of the Mexican army over the French in 1862). Of perhaps greater interest to astronomically minded folk, though, this month’s full [...] [...] 
I haven’t posted about the full moons this year; here are the last three. [As you can see from the photos, the reason I stopped posting was the poor focus of February's image. I've since fixed the problem, but haven't recovered my motivation to post the series in a timely fashion.] February 7, 2012: March [...] [...] 
Tonight’s moon is the Ice (NeoPagan), Winter (Colonial American), Old (English), Quiet (Celtic), or Wolf (Wiccan) moon. Here in south Florida, with a night-time low of nearly 65°, the only ice I could fine was in my water, and it melted pretty darn fast. But it makes for “easy” imaging, unless you’ve got clouds and [...] [...] 
The last day of 2011 was beautiful here in south Florida. Started off cool (chilly, even), but warmed nicely throughout the day. Since it was the first Saturday after Christmas, I was out in the field on the West Palm Beach Christmas Bird Count, and the weather proved mildly conducive to the birds we were [...] [...] |
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