2. Night Sky

Sky at Night

Look into the night sky and you look back in time. The sky at night is a vastness beyond comprehension, full of celestial objects like galaxies, stars, planets and the Moon. Gaze into a clear night sky and you get drawn into another world, a world as it was in the past. In this collection I am sharing my favourite night sky images and collections. All have been photographed in a natural environment and are real images. Many of my images tell a story, whether the subject matter or process of composition.
All photos captured with OM System.
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    March 19th 2011 a super "perigee moon" - the biggest in almost 20 years. I located to clear high (120m ASL) spot with a good easterly horizon view with some foreground trees in order to add scale. This clearly shows the colour transformation as the moon now takes on a more copper tone as irises above the trees above the horizon. Captured using the Olympus E5 and 90-250mm with x2 TC. The colours of the moon as it dipped above the horizon and moved through the pollution transformed from a blood red to copper orange eventually clearing into blinding white. An amazing moonrise. Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit. More here - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/
    March 19th 2011 a super "perigee moon" - the biggest in almost 20 years. I located to clear high (120m ASL) spot with a good easterly horizon view with some foreground trees in order to add scale. This is a 3 shot multi-exposure (in camera processed) using the Olympus E5 and 90-250mm with x2 TC. The colours of the moon as it dipped above the horizon and moved through the pollution transformed from a blood red to copper orange eventually clearing into blinding white. An amazing moonrise. Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit. More here - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/
    March 19th 2011 a super "perigee moon" - the biggest in almost 20 years. I located to clear high (120m ASL) spot with a good easterly horizon view with some foreground trees in order to add scale. This is a nice zoom shot through the trees as it rose above the horizon using the Olympus E5 and 90-250mm with x2 TC. The colours of the moon as it dipped above the horizon and moved through the pollution transformed from a blood red to copper orange eventually clearing into blinding white. An amazing moonrise. Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit. More here - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16mar_supermoon/