Category: moon

Polar vortex January 2024, the view from my window

There was a polar vortex over most of western North America for the past few days, with temperatures in Kitimat from -16 C with windchills as much as -30 at times. I did not venture out into the cold. All the photographs were taken from my upstairs bedroom with my Samsung Android S23, with the […]

A crescent moon over Kitimat

A 14 per cent waxing crescent moon over Kitimat, while the LNG Canada site is shrouded in low lying fog, Dec. 16, 2023.

Shooting the October Hunter’s Moon and Jupiter

The weather was cold and clear in Kitimat at the end of October, which give me three days of opportunity to photograph the full Hunter’s Moon that was also close to the planet Jupiter. The close shots of the Moon and Jupiter were shot with my Sony Alpha 7II  and a Sigma 100-499mm lens (not […]

A blue moon in August

August 2023’s super blue moon was full on August 31, but in Kitimat the sky was heavily overcast with rain up until the moon rise that evening when the moon was 99.9% warning Early on the morning of September 1, the sky was partly cloudy and the dawn allowed me to photograph the moon over […]