A Clogwog in Oz » night sky http://clogwog.net/wp Photography & Surf Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:40:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 thunder http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/09/thunder/ http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/09/thunder/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:14:56 +0000 admin http://clogwog.net/wp/?p=2206 http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/09/thunder/feed/ 0 up http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/04/up/ http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/04/up/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:31:57 +0000 admin http://clogwog.net/wp/?p=2195 this evening i was outside with my daughter when she pointed up and with a loud voice said ‘MOOOOOOOON’, she has been fascinated by the moon from age 1 and it seems to only get more excited by seeing it hang in the evening sky.

 

the first time i looked at the moon through a cheap telescope, this obviously humongous object silently slid from one side of the ocular to the other as the earth rotated underneath it. it felt like a humongous spaceship or the death star. (i found out the hard way that the moon is way too bright to look at like that.. use a filter kids !!)

wolfram alpha tells us how big the moon is

]]> http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/11/04/up/feed/ 0 port melbourne http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/10/23/port-melbourne-2/ http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/10/23/port-melbourne-2/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:07:35 +0000 admin http://clogwog.net/wp/?p=2186 http://clogwog.net/wp/2011/10/23/port-melbourne-2/feed/ 0 low crescent moon http://clogwog.net/wp/2009/01/30/low-crescent-moon/ http://clogwog.net/wp/2009/01/30/low-crescent-moon/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:18:34 +0000 tom http://clogwog.net/wp/?p=1229 a colleague inspired me to look for this, a low crescent moon where you can still see the ‘dark side’. it’s a bit of playing around with the settings but i’m happy with this one

crescent moon

animation

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