NaBloPoMo 2022 : The Last Night

Wed 11.30.22 – Here is a photo that I took last night of Jupiter, bright, and the Moon, shining, in the cold snapped southwestern sky. Photo taken with my camera phone, so it is not particularly light balanced and the Moon looks larger than…

NaBloPoMo2022 : Snow!

The last two days of rain in SoCal has produced some snow on the local LA area mountains and a good deal of snow on California’s North-South spine, the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Today I drove from SoCal to the Eastern Sierras and here is…

May 12th: Dusk, The Newest of New Moons and Venus

05.12.21 – The tiniest of newest of new crescent moons as seen this evening at dusk with a Venus who is finally far away enough from the sun to be seen clearly in the twilight sky. Also posted at my Flickr stream.

Light Pollution : Asterism

Wed. May 1, 2019 – Happy May Day – be it of the traditional It’s Spring! style of May Day or the 20th Century Workers Unite! style of May Day. Even with education, activism, and communities making an attempt to keep the skies in…

Mars and the Newland Power Plant

Tues. 08.14.18 – The great thing about the early evening sky this summer is that four of the five visible planets have been strung out like little jewels across the southeastern to western night sky: Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. Here is a photo…

The August New Moon and Venus

Tues. 08.14.18 – While the true August new moon was on Saturday the 11th, this evening was the visible separating conjunction of Venus and the three day old moon. It was lovely. Photo taken by Ms. Jen from the roof of her RV with…