Towse: views from the hill » moon

Waning Crescent Moon

Towse — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:44:32 +0000

To the left, lit, the tower for the eastern span of the SF-O Bay Bridge, scheduled to be fully open in 2013. Center with all the lights is Pier 17. Piers 17 and 15 are being restored and rebuilt to house the Exploratorium. Across the Bay, the blaze of light is the incredibly busy Port of Oakland.

29 Apr 2011 4:36A

Waning crescent moon. The Bay before dawn. 5:30 a.m.

Towse — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:58:02 +0000

Half moon rising. …

Towse — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:17:14 +0000

One of the things I love about this perch is watching the way the sunrise changes with the seasons and how the moonrise changes with the phases.

Here are two variants of tonight’s moonrise of the half moon. Well, this morning’s really because it’s way past my bedtime.

Half-moon 2:10A PDT 05 May 2010. The first taken with ISO 3200. The other taken with the “auto” setting and a flash for a fast shutter speed and adjusted post photo. Which is better?

I prefer the second, but the first has its charm, too.

Moon. Clouds. Scud.

Towse — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:25:25 +0000

Lovely moon last night.

Waxing crescent. On Nov 18th.

Towse — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:19:00 +0000

We were walking down to dinner and spotted the moon. Of the four shots I took, this was the least fuzzy.

Night shots 04Nov2009

Towse — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:00 +0000

Waning gibbous moon …

Giulio Verne tucked in for the night …

Harvest Moon Rises Over Berkeley

Towse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:05:00 +0000

Full moon tomorrow …

Towse — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:01:00 +0000

August Full moon

Towse — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:34:00 +0000

Full moon … in stages

Towse — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Last night as we were eating dinner (grilled lamb chops, stir-fried Chinese beans, and small red potatoes, cut and sautéed in olive oil with garlic and rosemary), I’d get up and walk to the windows occasionally. I was waiting for the full moon over the Bay Bridge – a photo op that comes once every twenty-eight days. If that.

At 8:50P there was still no sign of the moon. How can that be? Where is the moon? We finished dinner and moved to our chairs where we sat, finishing our glasses of wine.

A little after nine the moon finally appeared, rising orange behind the bridge. Then yellow. Then white, as it rose in the sky.

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