Yesterday there was a total solar eclipse visible only at the end of the Earth. To capture the unusual phenomenon, airplanes took flight below the clouded seascape of Southern Ocean. The featured image shows one relatively spectacular capture where the bright spot is the outer corona of the Sun and the eclipsing Moon is seen […]
Showers today! With a high of 5C and a low of 5C. 88 Humidity. 3 C currently. 16 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.” – Herbert Read
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” – Voltaire
In this snapshot from November 18, the Full Moon was not far from Earth’s shadow. In skies over Sicily the brightest lunar phase was eclipsed by passing clouds though. The full moonlight was dimmed and momentarily diffracted by small but similar sized water droplets near the edges of the high thin clouds. The resulting iridescence […]
Rain today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 89 Humidity. 7 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from South.
Christopher Kraft, flight director during Project Mercury, works at his console inside the Flight Control area at Mercury Mission Control. via NASA https://ift.tt/3ruqi1P
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
“Good design doesn’t date.” – Harry Seidler
Sweeping through northern predawn skies, on November 24 Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) was caught between two galaxies in this composite telescopic image. Sporting a greenish coma the comet’s dusty tail seems to harpoon the heart of NGC 4631 (top) also known as the Whale Galaxy. Of course NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 (bottom, aka the […]