A most spectacular event

Cool stuff Wolf,

We would go out at night up at Little Glass Valley Reservoir at about 5,000'
and lay on our backs and watch the stars............very special.

Once I was at Christmas Island on a full moon with my brother. We sat
outside our little cottage drinking a beer and watching the moon. It was
real hard to stop and go to bed.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA
www.kiene.com

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the
moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely
perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed
all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible
in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

Well, it sounded beautiful

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Most is better than TV ...... for that part.

/Roger

beauty snipped
I was lucky enough to be in a window seat flying across the Atlantic during
the height of Halley's comet. Not to many folks watched the movie.
Speilberg and crew ain't got nothing on mother nature.
--
Frank Reid
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get a digital camera... please.

Wolfgang wrote:

Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake. Something, presumably ice
crystals, between the observer on the ground and the clouds was refracting
the sunlight reflected off the moon. There was a bright white nimbus
surrounding the moon and extending about two apparent diameters of the moon
all around it. Outside this glowing patch was a ring of barely perceptible
red.....as near infrared as my eyes could detect. Outside that followed all
the colors of the spectrum; sort of a rainbow in the round. Outside that
was another complete rainbow and, outside that, a third. Barely visible in
the white patch were much smaller ripples than those formed by the high
clouds, traveling west to east.

It looked a lot prettier than it probably sounds.

There's a lot of really cool **** in this world......better than T.V. for
the most part.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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Standing out on the front stoop just now, I looked up at the full moon. I
was facing nearly due east. High thin clouds looked very much like the
ripples in the sand in the shallows of a lake.

There's few things like a full moon & clouds of any sort to paint some
stunning images. Yours sounds exceptional. We have the same full moon, but
maybe we'll get those high cirrus tonight.

That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

Reminds me of one of the coolest astronomical things I've seen. What must
have been a large meteorite made a huge, bright, trailing but brief streak
as I was looking up. My mind barely had time to form the impression, "wow",
when I heard a "pop" sound behind the meteorite. For a long time, I'd
assumed I'd actually heard the meteorite hit the atmosphere; but in
retrospect, the sound came way too soon after the streak to have traveled at
the speed of sound from that altitude. Is it actually possible the pop
sound was from the meteorite, or is it more likely the sound coincidently
came from somewhere else?

Joe F.

rb608 wrote:



That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:68dLb.70332$hf1.57099@lakeread06...
olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

Hey, wait a minute; I *have* the Stylus 300. Maybe I oughta read the manual
more closely.

Tx,
Joe F.

mine has a "night" photo feature....

rb608 wrote:

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news:68dLb.70332$hf1.57099@lakeread06...

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.


Hey, wait a minute; I *have* the Stylus 300. Maybe I oughta read the manual
more closely.

Tx,
Joe F.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:37:07 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:



rb608 wrote:



That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

Good time exposures of the moon are difficult - usually if they are
long enough to get good detail you will see the movement of the moon.
FWIW
--
Charlie...

Charlie Choc wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:37:07 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:



rb608 wrote:



That's one drawback I've found with the flood of point & shoot digital
cameras. No shutter adjustment for time exposures.

olympus stylus 300 or 400 - try one.

Good time exposures of the moon are difficult - usually if they are
long enough to get good detail you will see the movement of the moon.
FWIW
--
Charlie...

assuming a film speed of asa200 (typical color film), the proper
exposure
for an image of the full moon on a clear night would be 1/60sec at f4, give
or
take an f stop. of course, you could open up to f2.8 and select 1/125sec
for your
shutter speed, which would make for a crisp image even if hand held. the
only
thing produced by *longer* exposure times, such as several seconds, with a
tripod, would be an appearance of daylight.

yfitons
wayno (and, sure enough, it works with digital as well... )