Crouching Planet, Hidden Moon

I've been experimenting with Flickr and Picasa. Trying to get them to play nice together. I've been trying to use Picasa's email function to send photos to Flickr's "blog this" address, so that the photos will be shown here. I got it to work with the last post...from my phone, but not from here. Three times I've tried, three times I have no new post.
So here it is.
ast night we enjoyed standing outside in the cold (suitably attired in winter jackets) waiting for the moon to peek out from the complete obscuration of the clouds. After around 20 minutes of frustratingly small hints, we were treated to a clear sky.
I took photos.
My photos aren't great, or in focus, but we have had a good first year in our house for astronomical events. As with the comet, we were blessed with the best vantage point and invited the neighbours around to stand near the precarious edge of the watertank, in the dark, and watch the moon slip fulling into the Earth's penumbra and turn blood red. Or orange if you feel the need for truthful descriptions.


hosted on Flickr.