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Rain killed any chance of seeing the Blue Moon for be. But the universe was nice, the clear skies meant four days straight of a clear view on the milky way, whi

by hef19898 3y ago

Rain killed any chance of seeing the Blue Moon for be. But the universe was nice, the clear skies meant four days straight of a clear view on the milky way, while I was lucky enough to be at place close to no light polution! We'll see what this night brings, should be around 4-5 in the morning in my neck of the woods!

dylan604 3y ago
Nothing better than sitting out a rain storm, and taking advantage of the clean air immediately behind it. Some of my best images came this way.
- hef19898 3y ago
  So true! There was quite a lot of dust in the air over the alps lately, smoke from Canadian wildfires apparently. For the blue moony it was no storm so... Just light rain and solid cloud cover large enough to not even bother driving elsewhere. The day after I got the moon and Venus (I guess), didn't check yet on the computer but so far those pics seem to be good enough!
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Yeah, the day before/after full moon is still a really really full/bright moon that nobody other than someone checking the timestamps of the image would know it was the day of the full moon. Plus, a lot of times, the instant of the full moon is usually in the day time for me, so technically by the time the moon comes up it is already waning. I've been to places that the night of the full moon is crowded with photographers, but the night before/after leaves me there all alone.
    - hef19898 3y ago
      I like the first days after a full moon, the shadows where the moon goes dark are just great around the craters. Much more definition than on a full moon, IMHO. That the Blue Moon hid behind clouds is nothing I miss, after all it would just have been for the "saw it, took a photo" bucket. If those milky way shots woild have been impossible, that would have been worse! Isn't that the fun so, woeking aroind weather outdoors? So much around us is olanned and scheduled, it is nice every once in a while to have natural ransomness in live.

dylan604 3y ago

Nothing better than sitting out a rain storm, and taking advantage of the clean air immediately behind it. Some of my best images came this way.

hef19898 3y ago
So true! There was quite a lot of dust in the air over the alps lately, smoke from Canadian wildfires apparently. For the blue moony it was no storm so... Just light rain and solid cloud cover large enough to not even bother driving elsewhere. The day after I got the moon and Venus (I guess), didn't check yet on the computer but so far those pics seem to be good enough!
- dylan604 3y ago
  Yeah, the day before/after full moon is still a really really full/bright moon that nobody other than someone checking the timestamps of the image would know it was the day of the full moon. Plus, a lot of times, the instant of the full moon is usually in the day time for me, so technically by the time the moon comes up it is already waning. I've been to places that the night of the full moon is crowded with photographers, but the night before/after leaves me there all alone.
  - hef19898 3y ago
    I like the first days after a full moon, the shadows where the moon goes dark are just great around the craters. Much more definition than on a full moon, IMHO. That the Blue Moon hid behind clouds is nothing I miss, after all it would just have been for the "saw it, took a photo" bucket. If those milky way shots woild have been impossible, that would have been worse! Isn't that the fun so, woeking aroind weather outdoors? So much around us is olanned and scheduled, it is nice every once in a while to have natural ransomness in live.