Summer sunset and quarter moon
August 3, 2025
Tag: sunset
Winter skies in Kitimat
March 14, 2025
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 […]
Kitimat sunset December 11
December 12, 2024
First quarter moon at sunset over Douglas Channel
July 14, 2024
I have a great view of Douglas Channel from my bedroom window. I usually take the images with my Galaxy S23 (base model) with the high resolution Export Raw app. They are then processed with Afinity Photo.
The full “sap moon” heralds spring
March 25, 2024
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 […]
August Sturgeon Super Moon over Kitimat
August 2, 2023
It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]