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Full Moon setting on Wednesday morning

December 3, 2009

The fol­low­ing post is a Quick­Hit™ — an art­icle or post I found online and thought was import­ant enough to share dir­ectly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opin­ions pre­pen­ded or appen­ded to this post, oth­er­wise I’m just scrap­ing con­tent, and that’s not the intent.

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Tagged as: Image, Moon, photo, Photography

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Godspeed Apollo 11

July 16, 2009
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It was 40 years ago today, and the Amer­ican space pro­gram put it all on the line send­ing three young avi­at­ors to land on the moon.
Wow. I don’t think we’d even con­sider that a risk worth tak­ing now. Some­where along the line we lost our abil­ity to take risks.…and return to the Moon.
I’m lucky to have been […]

Tagged as: cool, Entertainment, History, Moon, NASA, Social Media, space, twitter

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Two resources for planning your lunar photography evening

December 12, 2008

A friend poin­ted me to this BBC art­icle about tonight’s full moon. It seems that tonight’s full moon event will occur when the Moon is the closest it’s been to the earth (dur­ing a full moon) in 15 years.
Well, methinks. A per­fect time to get out the pho­to­graphy and tele­scopy equip­ment and cap­ture this event.
But wait. This […]

Tagged as: Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, Full Moon, Image, Lunar, Moon, Photography, Winter

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