Night Sky Photography -- 10-05-2024 -- The Very Young Crescent Moon & Venus After Sunset

For my first night sky photographs for October 2024, I present to y'all two photos I took this evening of the Very Young Crescent Moon with the planet Venus in the evening sky about 40 minutes after sunset. Both photos came out very well in the cloudless sky at dusk. I used a tree in a nearby empty field in the foreground to line up the two heavily bodies nicely.

Venus is now in the evening sky following the earlier sunset in autumn here in South Carolina and appears as a very bright evening star. Its usually the first "star" to appear after sunset, so spotting it right now in the evening sky dome will be easy this month, even without Luna as a starting point.

The next time these two meet will be on the evening of Monday, November 4th, when the pair will appear to be even closer.

More night sky photography coming soon. Have a wonderful evening and be sure to keep your eyes to the night skies, y'all hear!

Night Sky Photography -- 04-06-2019 -- The Yery Young Moon And....Shoes?!

Good evening fellow stargazers!

This evening after sunset I got my camera and ventured out to a nearby field to get some photos of the first Very Young Moon of spring 2019. 

On my way there while looking up at the position of the moon in the western sky, I spotted something hanging from the telephone and power lines over a road and had to pull over. The surreal sight of a pair of tennis shoes hanging over the lines just over the pencil-thin moon was something I had to get a visual record of. 

So I snapped these pictures: one of them from my vantage point, and the other a close up. Artistic visual aside, it makes you wonder just how those shoes (which appeared to be in fairly good condition) got there in the first place.

A few minutes later I arrived at an open field to snap the next three photos over the course of about 15 minutes as evening turned into dusk. In the close-up you can make out several large craters visible on the barely lit surface of the moon, and the curvature of Luna in the Earth's shadow. In the final photo at dusk, I managed to get a really good shot of the Lunar surface in Earth's shadow.

There you have it fellow stargazers, the first Very Young Moon of spring 2019. I hope y'all enjoyed my photos. Please leave a review below. Have a wonderful Dixie evening and y'all be sure to keep your eyes to the night skies.

Night Sky Photography -- 01-07-2019 -- Very Young Moon In Western Sky

Greetings and Salutations fellow stargazers!

This evening I was pleased to see the clouds spread apart just long enough for me to get two good shots of the very first Very Young Moon of 2019. 

In both photos you can see the slender waxing crescent of the moon in the clearing between the clouds about an hour after sunset, or so. In the first photo you see the first moon phase following the New Moon as it appears in the dusk. 

In the second photo you can see the outline of the moon covered in Earth's shadow with the small crescent of sunlight visible on the lunar surface. 

I was truly fortunate that the sky cleared up long enough for me to get these two shots. I hope y'all enjoyed these photos. 

Have a wonderful evening and keep looking to the night skies, y'all.