In the moon

Every 29.5 days, the moon goes through eight cycles. Just like the Sun's placement in the sky can help predict your personality traits and even influence current events, the phase the moon is in at any given time — and the cycle you were born under — has a huge influence on your life, mindset, and mood.

Photographer Andrew McCarthy has transformed 50,000 individual images of the night sky into one very large and detailed photo of the moon. Every crater and lunar mare on the “light” side looks like it was shot from within the natural satellite’s orbit, when the image was actually created from a telescope and two camera setup 239,000Continue reading "50,000 Photographs Combine to Form a Detailed Image of the Moon and Stars"

Let’s imagine a Full Moon is approaching. You know what it looks like. You know there is some kind of message to be had; but what does it all mean? The Moon moves in cycles every 28 days, and it can be difficult to follow the meaning of each phase.…

Moon and stars

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was my schooldays hero. I remember that I had pasted many of his photographs in my notebook, which were published in newspapers and magazines. As a collector of postal stamps, I always searched for stamps portraying this great astronaut, as well as stamps related to Apollo 11 Mission. I also remember

The Virgo Full Moon occurs on March 7, at 4:40am PST and 7:40am EST, making it the last lunar event of winter and the astrological year. The spring equinox is almost here and marks the start of the astrological new year. The ice is melting and the buds are blooming.

Interactive Moon Map with the names and locations of major craters and the Lunar Maria.

The moon and night sky was so clear I couldn't pass up taking some shots of the full moon. This moon shot was taken in my front yard at 1:02 AM on April 7, 2012. It was shot with a Pentax K20D DSLR using the Pentax DA* 300mm f/4 telephoto lens. Exposure 1/500s, Aperture f/5.6, ISO speed 100. I used the 2 second timer to lock up the mirror to prevent vibrations. In photoshop, I only did some curves for contrast, cropped the image (100%) and then sharpen. To get the clearest image at night, I…

We close out 2019 with a full moon in Gemini.

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