If you look west over Kitimat’s mountains, with the skies clear about an hour after the summery sunset, you will see the planets Venus and Jupiter in the sky. Venus is closer and brighter and seen to the right, lower on the horizon. Jupiter, farther away of course, and not as bright, can be seen […]
On this weekend most of North America was in the grip of a frigid polar vortex. On the northwest coast of British Columbia, the sky was clear (and there were few birds on the waterfront).
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.
I took it pretty easy during the holidays, trying to relax. The weather continued weird and I only ventured as far as my driveway.
It was a spectacular sight last night and I didn’t have to leave my front driveway. Some shots are a bit grainy, an artifact of my Sony RX10iii which I grabbed when I ssaw the show. The final two moon shots are taken with the Sony Alpha 7II and my new 400-800 lens, which was […]
