Category: night
August Sturgeon Super Moon over Kitimat
The Toronto Red Rocket retires
Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, was the last day of service for the Toronto “red rocket” CLRV streetcars that have been in service for 40 years. So I decided to look through my files for some memorable photographs of the iconic streetcars.
This week is a stargazer’s delight. Mars is at its closest approach to Earth, and that means the Red Planet is the brightest it will be from July 27 to July 31 (the latter date is when Mars is actually the closest). Although North America missed the solar eclipse earlier this week, the moon is […]
A rainy night in Vancouver
Icy nights, Venus, Mars and the moon
Mars (top center) and Venus set over the mountains of Kitimat #BC with the snow illuminated by the light of 93 per cent gibbous moon. Taken on a cold clear -23C windchill night ISO 8000 1/60 f4.5, January 11, 2017 (Robin Rowland) The first two weeks of January in Kitimat were cold and clear as […]
Moonrise over Mt. Elizabeth, Kitimat
A winter full moon rises over Kitimat BC’s iconic Mt. Elizabeth, November 25, 2015. The moon rises over Mt. Elizabeth, shot for the sky. Sony A7II, using old Vivitar manual Minolta mount 85 to 205 zoom, 1/100 sec, f3,5, ISO 5000, Shutter priority (Robin Rowland) The moon over Mt. Elizabeth, shot for the moon, a […]