Category: sky

Moonset, sunset

With cold, clear skies over Kitimat in late January, both the waning and waxing (new) moon appeared over the mountains and the channel close to sunset. January 21 had high clouds that hid the moon, but the sky was clear again on January 22.

After the storm

It was a stormy night and early morning on September 27, when I went to Haisla to photograph the unveiling of the legacy pole. I noticed that the storm had uprooted a tree and it had somehow become planted in Douglas Channel just off the village dyke. The sun had come out for the pole […]

Winter skies in Kitimat

Winter 2025 has been spectacular for photographing from my front yard and in some cases bedroom window.  The planets Jupiter, Saturn and Venus were visible at times  and capping it off was the lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025.  On the other hand we had a lot of rain and heavy overcast but not much […]

August skies

  August was a good month for sky shooting.  We had a couple of nights when the sky was clear enuogh for shooting the aurora borealis or nothern lights as the sun is at high activity at the moment.  These are all shot from my back deck, which is not an ideal location with city […]

The full “sap moon” heralds spring

The first full moon that comes after the spring equinox, which marks the change from astronomical winter to astronomical spring  is often called the sap moon (the sap is running)  or the worm moon (worms appear in the soil). Also called the Lenten moon, since the Christian Easter is always the first Sunday following the […]

Beauty in a stormy atmospheric river

While out birding on January 27, 2024, I also took images of the surrounding landscape during the atmospheric river storm. Given the “atmosphere” I converted all to black and white.