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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 [...] [...] 
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 full moon for December 2011 (variously known as the Long Night Moon, Bitter Moon, Cold Moon, Christmas Moon, etc.) was not easy to find here in Boca, blanketed as we were under clouds and buffeted by winds. But for a few brief moments the night after the day’s full moon (9:36 a.m. local time, [...] [...] 
October’s full moon this year, the Hunter’s moon, occurred at 10:06 p.m. EDT, about 9 hours before it reached apogee (Oct 12 7:44 a.m. EDT, distance 406 434 km). Local conditions here in south Florida were a bit of a challenge; I had to set up under clouds and hope for a break in the [...] [...] 
The full moon for August 2011 (Sturgeon Moon, Dog Days’ Moon, etc.) occurred during the afternoon hours of August 13 (2:57 p.m. to be precise) for East Coast observers, so I did my usual day-before-just-in-case-the-day-after-doesn’t-work photo, and I’m glad I did. The “night” of the full moon, the 13th, was much stormier and less conducive [...] [...] 
Last night’s/this morning’s full moon, as seen from our Boca backyard: If you think this version is fuzzy, you should see the version after I “corrected” the focus! In the application file, the image is bright, but the highlights aren’t blown out. When I view the image in the browser, the highlights are blown. Wonder [...] [...] 
Having a five-week old in the house guarantees that if you need to be awake at night to do something, say, take pictures of the full moon, you’ve got a pretty good chance. Of being awake, that is. Staying awake long enough to put the baby to sleep, get downstairs and outside with your camera [...] [...] |
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