Sunday, January 3, 2010

Seeing 2010 (#2)

Tonight's submission is an follow up to last night's, taken moments later from essentially the same location.

The glow of the last year's last full (and blue) moon hazily illuminates this canvas from ±235,000 miles distant, ironically as a sort of negative silhouette eclipsed by a dormant light standard. Where it not for having been taken at 1:20 a.m., this image might easily be interpreted as a solar eclipse, rather than the pseudo-lunar species presented here.

Note the faint coronal ring, formed by the mist-laden evening atmosphere.



San Rafael, New Year's 2010, (Lunar Luminescence), #5991

(c)2010 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: January 1, 2010; Canon 20D; f/11 @ 30 secs; -2/3 EV; ISO 100; 18mm.

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