Notices tagged with moon

1/3 Today you're gonna hear a lot of hype about a blue #SuperMoon, so let me unpack what this means.

The Moon's orbit around the Earth is slightly elliptical. Sometimes it's a bit closer and thus looks a tad bigger. The difference is barely noticeable, not even remotely close to "super".

"Blue Moon" refers to this being the third full #Moon in a season that has four or, more commonly (but not in this case) the second full Moon in a month.

#astronomy #science

📷 Marcoaliaslama (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

The Moon last night. Taken as four sets of red, green, blue and clear earthshine. Preprocessed in SolHAT, integrated in PixInsight, and composited in Photoshop.

#Moon #Astrophotography #Science #Space

My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography

THIS is what I call a selfie

APOD: 2022 December 1 - Artemis 1: Flight Day 13

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221201.html

#artemis_1 #orion_spacecraft #earth #moon