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Adelaide: Perhaps we should read and knit today.
Charlotte: and stay in our Jimmy Jams....
Adelaide: I'll put on some tea.
I can't get this sunrise out of my head..and keep going back to look at all the shots I took that morning...(in my jimmyjams) lol...They make me smile and feel so good I decided to post another one from this angle.............Hope it makes you feel good too.
Best viewed LARGE. (photo taken in Port Credit, Ontario C A N A D A)
Ok so I'm a big nerd..lol ;) Last night I braved the cold temps and went outside in my jimmyjams to shoot the biggest brightest moon of 2010..This morning I woke up and thought what the heck..I'd go down to the Lake and watch the sunrise..no jimmyjams this morning though lol......Ahh it wasn't as colourful as I had hoped but to me they're all wonderful to see ;) I can't stand sleeping in ...it's painful to me........I hope you enjoy today's sunrise too..........
Enjoy your Saturday everyone.
Best viewed LARGE. (Photo taken in Mississauga, Ontario CANADA)
Sorries everyone I've been really busy these days..I will get caught up shortly with you all.
I couldn't resist taking a quick shot of the moon tonight..I had to wait for the moving cloud cover to go away..However, handheld as always in my jimmyjams ;) Hope you all have a great night. Photo taken in Port Credit (Mississauga) Ontario, Canada on October 14, 2010.
"Illuminated Fraction: 0.531
0.4 days since first quarter "
"How come we can sometimes see the moon during the day?
The reason that you don't see the stars during the day is that the sky is too bright. Sunlight scatters around in the air and makes the sky look bright blue. But if you had a telescope and pointed it at a bright star you could still see it during the day! The stars are still there, just hard to see. The moon is bright enough that we can see it during the day or night. It orbits Earth once every 29 days. So during some of that time, it is easiest to see during the day and sometimes during the night."
The sky seemed clear tonight so I decided to "shoot the moon"..Enjoy!! :) I took this photo tonight which is February 19, 2010 in Mississauga, Ontario CANADA...Yes, I was in my jimmyjams again lol ;) "Shedding light on the 'dark side' of the moon"
"Look to the south to southwest this early evening to view the waxing crescent moon. The moon’s disk is about 30% illuminated by sunshine and 70% engulfed in its own shadow. Tonight, the moon shines near the three brightest stars of the constellation Aries, Hamal, Sheratan and Mesathim."
Goodnight everyone!!
Explore #194, July 22/11
I took this photo moments ago when I went out to get our newspaper. I saw the moon out of the corner of my eye and rushed back inside for my Sony.
"Mare (plural maria) means "sea," but maria on the moon are plains on the moon. They are called maria because very early astronomers thought that these areas on the moon were great seas. The first moon landing was in the Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Maria are concentrated on the side of the moon that faces the Earth; the far side has very few of these plains. Scientists don't know why this is so."
Sorries everyone..I have had bad luck lately. My newest Sony camera simply quit on me and it's in for repair..I feel lost without it.
In keeping with most of my moon shots..this was taken in my jimmyjams handheld in Mississauga, Ontario Canada moments ago.
Have a great day everyone!!!
The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Will Snellen wrote a PDF version using the phonetic alphabet. You can hear some of it pronounced mostly correctly by "JimmyJams" in the video The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube. You can also skip down to a more complete introduction at the bottom of this page.
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak ,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
Say, expecting fraud and trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles,
Missiles, similes, reviles.
Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far.
From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire",
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,
Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.
Have you ever yet endeavoured
To pronounce revered and severed,
Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
Peter, petrol and patrol?
Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,
Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
Right! Your pronunciation's OK.
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Is your r correct in higher?
Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,
Buoyant, minute, but minute.
Say abscission with precision,
Now: position and transition;
Would it tally with my rhyme
If I mentioned paradigm?
Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,
But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
Cornice, nice, valise, revise,
Rabies, but lullabies.
Of such puzzling words as nauseous,
Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
You'll envelop lists, I hope,
In a linen envelope.
Would you like some more? You'll have it!
Affidavit, David, davit.
To abjure, to perjure. Sheik
Does not sound like Czech but ache.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover.
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice,
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,
Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",
But it is not hard to tell
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.
Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
Has the a of drachm and hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Desert, but desert, address.
Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
Cow, but Cowper, some and home.
"Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",
Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",
Making, it is sad but true,
In bravado, much ado.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.
Arsenic, specific, scenic,
Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,
Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.
Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
Mind! Meandering but mean,
Valentine and magazine.
And I bet you, dear, a penny,
You say mani-(fold) like many,
Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
Tier (one who ties), but tier.
Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
Prison, bison, treasure trove,
Treason, hover, cover, cove,
Perseverance, severance. Ribald
Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled.
Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,
Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.
Don't be down, my own, but rough it,
And distinguish buffet, buffet;
Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,
Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.
Say in sounds correct and sterling
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling.
Evil, devil, mezzotint,
Mind the z! (A gentle hint.)
Now you need not pay attention
To such sounds as I don't mention,
Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws,
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;
Nor are proper names included,
Though I often heard, as you did,
Funny rhymes to unicorn,
Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan.
No, my maiden, coy and comely,
I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley.
No. Yet Froude compared with proud
Is no better than McLeod.
But mind trivial and vial,
Tripod, menial, denial,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream,
Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.
Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
But you're not supposed to say
Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.
Had this invalid invalid
Worthless documents? How pallid,
How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
When for Portsmouth I had booked!
Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
Episodes, antipodes,
Acquiesce, and obsequies.
Please don't monkey with the geyser,
Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
Rather say in accents pure:
Nature, stature and mature.
Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
Wan, sedan and artisan.
The th will surely trouble you
More than r, ch or w.
Say then these phonetic gems:
Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.
Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,
There are more but I forget 'em-
Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
Lighten your anxiety.
The archaic word albeit
Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;
With and forthwith, one has voice,
One has not, you make your choice.
Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,
Hero, heron, query, very,
Parry, tarry fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.
Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,
Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes,
Puisne, truism, use, to use?
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual,
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height,
Put, nut, granite, and unite.
Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.
Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi
Gyrate, dowry and awry.
Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion,
Rally with ally; yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess-it is not safe,
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.
Starry, granary, canary,
Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;
Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
Do not rhyme with here but heir.
Mind the o of off and often
Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.
Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Liable, but Parliament.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.
A of valour, vapid vapour,
S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
I of antichrist and grist,
Differ like diverse and divers,
Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.
Pronunciation-think of Psyche!-
Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Won't it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying "grits"?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel
Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington, and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??
Hiccough has the sound of sup...
My advice is: GIVE IT UP!
On the way home from the show I noticed the moon seemed so bright..There were still blue skies a little while ago and I wanted to get home quick so I could take a few photos..I could tell that it would cloud over soon..So this is the result... Looks kinda weird..but I liked it..It wasn't quite dark black skies when I took it a few moments ago..but I think it looks pretty cool. I simply couldn't resist. I was right too as it's clouded over now and I can't even see it from our house. Handheld of course in my jimmyjams ;) lol
"Tonight’s waxing crescent moon, as seen from North America, is over 40 percent illuminated by sunshine. In the world’s eastern hemisphere – Europe, Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand – the waxing crescent exhibits a little thinner phase and lies somewhat farther west of Antares. But no matter where you live, the moon – as always – is moving eastward in front of the background stars, now heading for the constellation Scorpius’ brightest star: Antares, the Heart of the Scorpion."
"The Sea of Tranquility is the landing site of Apollo 11, the mission that gave mankind its first ever walk on the Moon."
Tonight's Moon as seen from Port Credit, Ontario C A N A D A
EXPLORE #319, Sept 14/10
September 14th, 2010 Tonight's Moon..I took this moments ago..Once again handheld in my jimmyjams. Seems to work for me so I'm not going to give it up now. Good thing I don't have to go far from home to get a good moon shot in my jimmyjams!
I see other photos of the moon on flickr from people who are real die hard astrophotographers, with sophisticated equipment hooked up to telescopes etc..I don't know about you but this is pretty good for a gal who just points her camera up into the sky and shoots isn't it? lol
"This evening, the moon shines above the constellation Scorpius and in front of Ophiuchus – the “overlooked” constellation of the Zodiac. Once upon a time, the border between Scorpius and Ophiuchus was not a particularly well-defined section of sky, until the International Astronomers Union officially drew in the constellation borders in the 1930’s."
"Tonight, the moon shines in Ophiuchus – the “overlooked” 13th constellation of the Zodiac."
"From Earth, we always see the same side of the moon."
"Waxing Crescent, 38% of the Moon is Illuminated."
ENJOY!!
EXPLORE #304, Aug 28/10
This photo of the Moon was taken early this morning in my jimmyjams in Mississauga, Ontario Canada with my trusty SONY DSCHX1 and 1.7X Tele-conversion Lens on August 28th, 2010.
"The moon is near a bright object on August 27, 2010, but – no matter what anyone tells you – that bright object is not the planet Mars. Instead, it’s Jupiter."
"The presence of one of the brightest planets and the passage of the recently full moon make this a good time to consider this general region of the sky. Pisces resides in a part of the sky that is home to other “watery” constellations, including Aquarius the Water Bearer, Cetus the Whale, Piscis Austrinus the Southern Fish and Eridanus the River. Peter Lum – in his wonderful little (out-of-print) book called The Stars in Our Heaven – wrote that Chaldean astronomers referred to this region of the sky as “The Sea.”"
"It’s not entirely clear what these stars have to do with water. This part of the sky is relatively dark (except on nights like tonight, when the moon and king of planets are firmly ensconced in its midst). It may be that the darkness of this part of the heavens reminded the ancient stargazers of some black depth of the ocean.""
ENJOY the weekend everyone! :)
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I've said it more than once on my moon photos..but still every time I take a photo of the MOON it still freaks me out that I am able to get decent clarity on something so far away as the MOON! WOW
I took this just a little while ago. I drove to a nearby park opened my sunroof and voila!! This is the result ;) How could I resist such a clear night? I simply couldn't..No one new I had already changed into my jimmyjams!! I took this tonight, April 23, 2010. It is a challenge for me to always try to better my moon shots..I am very happy with this one ;)
"Mare (plural maria) means "sea," but maria on the moon are plains on the moon. They are called maria because very early astronomers thought that these areas on the moon were great seas. The first moon landing was in the Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Maria are concentrated on the side of the moon that faces the Earth; the far side has very few of these plains. Scientists don't know why this is so."
While I'm no expert on the topic of the moon..I have tried my best to locate and identify the mares on my own moon shot for you to see............I hope they are labelled correctly lol :) I was going from a map I found online! ) I tried to the best of my ability to label them correctly. I can't believe the clarity I get from my little sony and tele-conversion lens..UNREAL!
"Moon near Regulus on April 23, Saturn nearby."
ENJOY. Best viewed LARGE
(I posted this last night..However, today is my Birthday April 24th...and I'm off celebrating ...Let's all EAT CAKE!!)
Explore #443, Oct 4/11
The moon seemed so bright tonight I couldn't resist going out ;) Tonight's moon as seen in
Port Credit, Ontario, C A N A D A. Waxing Gibbous 59% Full on October 4, 2011. As usual taken hand held in my jimmyjams lol ;) on our home turf!
I know after awhile moon shots might seem boring..However, it always seems to come out different in every photo I take..Not boring to me at all..Addictive really..Given the fact it's so far away..I think it's too cool that little old me can stand out in her yard in her jimmyjams and grab a shot like this isn't it? lol
"Cassiopeia and Perseus in northeast on October evenings."
"Mare (plural maria) means "sea," but maria on the moon are plains on the moon. They are called maria because very early astronomers thought that these areas on the moon were great seas. The first moon landing was in the Mare Tranquillitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Maria are concentrated on the side of the moon that faces the Earth; the far side has very few of these plains. Scientists don't know why this is so."
We're off for a couple of days..So I'll catch up when we get back ;)
Last night we went to Niagara Falls for dinner and arrived home late. I noticed how bright the moon was on the ride home and couldn't wait to grab my camera when we got home...Despite the clouds..here's last night's moon taken in my jimmyjams from our front porch...handheld of course ;) I can't help but wonder how in the heck I can get such a good shot of the moon so far away hand held with my little sony? lol It freaks me out and boggles my mind actually.
Photo taken on July 29th, 2010 from Mississauga, Ontario Canada.
Enjoy!! Have a great weekend everyone.
Ok so I just couldn't wait to shoot the moon tonight..(handheld and in my jimmyjams of course) :)
I went out earlier but then again at precisly 1135 to shoot it..I feel the later shot is really best..the colour is better and it did look brighter to me for some reason..Here is my Supermoon of 2012! Perigree moon over Port Credit! My moon shots clearly prove that you don't need expensive equipment to get good results all you need to do is get out there and give it a try! Every time I see one of my moon photos it freaks me out that I can get such a clear shot from so far away!!!
Supermoon! Not only is it the biggest full moon of the year, it's super cool.
"If the full moon looks a bit bigger and brighter in tonight's sky, you're not seeing things: It's just the "supermoon" — the biggest moon of 2012. And there's a meteor shower from Halley's comet peaking tonight, too, adding to the sky show."
"The full moon of May will hit its peak overnight tonight and early Sunday (May 5 and 6) just one minute after the moon makes its closest approach to Earth. The timing means the moon, weather permitting, could appear up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the average full moon, an event scientists have nicknamed the "supermoon."
"The moon will be at its fullest at 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 Sunday GMT) just after hitting perigee, the point in its orbit that brings the moon closest to Earth. The technical name for the event is a "perigee moon," though NASA and other scientists have dubbed May's full moon as the supermoon of 2012."
"The moon will be about 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) from Earth, about 12.2 percent closer to our planet than when the moon is at apogee, its farthest point. The average Earth-moon distance is about 230,000 miles (384,400 km)."
I haven't posted a photo of Zoe, my nephew's little girl, since she was newborn, some 18 months ago. I went to my sister Sherrie's on Saturday and since her three older sisters were gone to see Justin Bieber, we "borrowed" Zoe for an afternoon photo shoot and had a blast. Here is my favorite photo of the day, with Zoe trying to look cute, giving you her "tickle me" pose, a Valentine for everyone from Zoe and Uncle Phooey. Happy Valentine's day!
I just came in from taking this shot of the moon..It is absolutely freezing outside here in Mississauga, Ontario Canada. I had to go out and brave the cold (in my jimmyjams and coat lol) as it's the biggest and brightest Full Moon of 2010 tonight. It really is an amazing one. For those of you who either can't see it or didn't..this one's for YOU!
"But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works:
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth -- which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days -- is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object."
"This full moon is also known as the Old Moon or the Moon After Yule."
Enjoy! Best viewed LARGE..(photo taken moments ago January 29, 2010 in MIssissauga, Ontario CANADA)
That's ME! :) lol There I was just a little while ago..opening the door to get our morning newspaper when I noticed the bright light coming from the backyard....I looked up and this is what I saw..I quickly ditched the idea of the paper and decided to go grab my camera. I grabbed my husband's jacket and headed out onto our driveway in my jimmyjams and slippies to catch this beautiful shot of the moon this morning (handheld of course) I guess you could say I AM the GODDESS of the Moon as I simply can't help but take photos of it when the sky is clear...... ;)
"Basic Lunar Information:
Name:
Moon
Age:
4.5 billion years old
Mass:
73'490'000'000'000'000 million kg
Shape:
Egg-shaped
Family:
Member of our solar system, satellite of earth
Active Relationships:
Orbits around the earth
Distance from earth:
384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee,
~406 731 km at apogee)
Traveling by car:
130 days
Traveling by rocket:
13 hours
Traveling by light speed:
1.52 sec
Diameter
3476 km (1/4 of the Earth's)
Driving around by car:
4 days
Gravity acceleration:
1.62m/sec2 (1/6 of Earth's)
Revolution period:
27.3217 days
Mean Synodic period
(new moon to new moon):
29.530588861 days
Mean orbital velocity:
1'023 km/sec"
"Lunar atmosphere
The Moon has almost no atmosphere, because of its weak gravity. All types of gas will escape from its surface.
Without an atmosphere, there is no wind or water erosion. The Moon's surface is about the same now as it was 3 billion years ago. The astronauts' footprints remain unchanged on the Moon's surface. The footprints should last at least 10 million years."
The current moon phase for October 17th, 2011 is Waning Gibbous 76% Full. This photo was taken in Mississauga, Ontario Canada.
ENJOY!!
I only took one photo this morning before I grabbed the newspaper. I went to take another shot and the clouds covered and surrounded the moon in mist. I could barely even make it out. Shooting the moon is like that..within seconds the moon can be completely covered in clouds. For a fleeting moment this was the moon I saw moments ago, handheld in my jimmyjams ;) of course. Photo taken in Port Credit, Ontario Canada.
"When Neil Armstrong took that first historical step and said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" it would not have occurred to anyone that the step he took in the dust of the moon was there to stay. It will be there for millions of years because there is no wind on the moon. That is, assuming the downdraft from the Command Module upon takeoff back into space didn't destroy the print. Buzz Aldrin reportedly saw the American flag, much further away, blow over during launch. Nevertheless, any footprints made by the famous astronauts undisturbed by takeoff are, in fact, there to stay."
"Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain on the Moon, it is 4700 metres tall, just over half the height of Mt Everest (8848m)."
Current Moon Phase Waning Gibbous 67% October 18, 2011.
Explore #478 Aug 23, 2012
Couldn't help but shoot the moon tonight.. ;) So bright and wonderful to see through my camera..Hope you enjoy tonight's moon on August 23, 2012 as seen from Mississauga, Ontario Canada! Taken as always handheld in my jimmyjams!
"Neptune comes closest to Earth on August 23, 2012, even though Neptune won’t reach opposition until August 24. "Neptune is said to be at opposition – opposite the sun in Earth’s sky – whenever our planet Earth in its orbit passes in between the sun and Neptune. At opposition, Neptune rises in the east at sunset, climbs highest up for the night at midnight and sets in the west at sunrise."
"Even at its closest, Neptune lodges way out there, in the outskirts of the solar system. At opposition, Neptune lies 29 times farther away from Earth than the Earth lies from the sun. You’ll still need binoculars to spot Neptune, the solar system’s most distant planet, even when it’s at its closest and brightest for the year."
Tonight's moon May 19th, taken in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just a little while ago.......Taken in my front yard hand held as always once again wearing my jimmyjams ;) Pretty cool huh? Never ceases to amaze me that I can get such a clear shot........Unreal isn't it that something soooooooooo far away appears so clear from my little sony DSCH-X1 with my 1.7x tele-conversion lens.......
"This evening, the waxing crescent moon sits fairly close to the red planet Mars. This planet was brighter some months back, but it’s always an interesting sight. Can you see that it looks reddish and doesn’t twinkle?"
"The moon, always in motion, continually goes eastward in font of the background stars. It goes full circle (360 degrees) relative to the stars every 27 and 1/3 days. That’s about 13 degrees eastward daily. For reference, your fist held at an arm length approximates 10 degrees."
"Moon and planet Mars close together on May 19"
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It's that time again for another hand held shot of the moon in my jimmyjams lol ;) THe moon was bright tonight but clouds were hovering about.....Enjoy this shot of the moon as taken from Mississauga, Ontario Canada moments ago on Sunday August 15th, 2010, handheld while in my jimmyjams again ;) lol It seems I take better shots while in the comfort of my jimmyjams hahaha ;)
"Moon passes beneath Libra stars on August 15"
"The waxing crescent moon and the constellation Libra’s two major stars – Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali – appear rather low in your southwest sky at nightfall. The moon can help you find these stars. As evening deepens, the moon and these Libra stars descend westward, to sink beneath the southwest horizon by mid to late evening."
I have an appointment this morning and will catch up with everyone later on ;) Have a great day!
I couldn't resist tonight..I was definitely MOONSTRUCK tonight. Taken in my jimmyjams (of course), handheld just a short while ago. Photo taken in Port Credit, Ontario Canada with my Sony DSC-HX1 and 1.7x tele-conversion lens.
I see other photos of the moon on flickr from people who are real die hard astrophotographers, with sophisticated equipment hooked up to telescopes etc..I don't know about you but this is pretty good for a gal who just points her camera up into the sky and shoots isn't it? lol
Why are parts of the moon called seas?
"Galileo was responsible for naming the major features on the moon. You may know that he was the first person to study the night sky using a telescope. He thought the dark, smooth areas were seas, and called them "maria" (Latin for seas; "mare" is the singular). For instance, the first Apollo landing occurred in Mare Tranquilitatis (the Sea of Tranquility). Of course we know now that there are no seas. The "seas" look flat from ancient lava flows. But the names stayed."
Waxing Gibbous, 76% of the Moon is Illuminated on September 17, 2010
Facts About the Moon
"The moon is not a planet, but a satellite of the Earth.
The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres
Only 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth.
The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour.
When a month has two full moons, the second full moon is called a blue moon. Another definition of a blue moon is the third full moon in any season (quarter of year) containing 4 total full moons.
From Earth, we always see the same side of the moon; the other side is always hidden.
The dark spots we see on the moon that create the image of the man in the moon are actually craters filled with basalt, which is a very dense material.
The moon is the only extraterrestrial body that has ever been visited by humans. It is also the only body that has had samples taken from it.
The first space craft to send back pictures from the moon was Luna 3 (built by the Soviet Union) in October 1959.
The moon has no global magnetic field.
The moon is about 1/4 the size of the Earth."
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Took this moments ago tonight's Full Moon handheld in my jimmyjams ;) with my trusty Sony DSC-HX1 and Tele-Conversion Lens. For those of you who follow my stream you know this works for me ;) Shooting the moon when it's full doesn't provide lots of detail on the moon but tonights moon was just so bright and big I couldn't resist ;) Enjoy!
"August 2012 has two full moons. That’s somewhat unusual. Most months only have one. But in cycles of 19 years, or 228 calendar months, seven to eight calendar months will always have two full moons. In other words, there’s a month with two full moons every two to three years. When it happens, the second one is popularly called a Blue Moon. The Blue Moon for 2012 will fall on August 31 at 13:58 UTC (8:58 a.m. CDT)."
"The second full moon of August 2012 will come on August 31 at 13:58 UTC. By recent popular acclaim, the second of two full moons in a single calendar month goes by the name of Blue Moon. According to folklore, there are other definitions for Blue Moon. A Blue Moon can also be the third of four full moons in a season. But the second-full-moon-in-a-month definition is the easiest to remember, and it’s probably what most people think about when they think of a Blue Moon."
After August 2012, we will see two full moons in a single calendar month again in July 2015.""
"Full Sturgeon Moon – August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon."
The skies were clear enough here in Mississauga, Ontario to go out in my jimmyjams to shoot tonight's Blue Moon of 2012 hand held of course with my trusty little sony and tele-conversion lens. We won't see another one till 2015, if we're lucky enough ;)
"A blue-colored moon is rare. But folklore has defined two different kinds of Blue Moons. A Blue Moon can be the second full moon in a month. Or it can be the third of four full moons in a season. The full moon of August 31, 2012 will be considered a Blue Moon."
"From Elvis to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the classic popular songs for love-lorn people is 'Blue Moon'.
The 1934 song relates the tale of a man who finally found the love of his life - something that was so unexpected for him that it must have happened under a blue moon..."
Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold
Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Have a great long weekend everyone.
I took this photo of the moon just a little while ago........I noticed how bright it was while I was getting my breakfast ready..I simply couldn't resist taking a photo........Of course as always, I took this shot in my jimmyjams and it's handheld as usual. Honestly, one of these days I'm just going to have to use my tripod lol
It wasn't until flickr that I decided to "shoot" the moon..I saw so many incredible shots of the moon on here that I just had to get out and give it a try. I find I'm hooked now...Whenever the nightsky is clear all I want to do is get my camera out. For those of you who don't normally shoot the moon..I encourage you to give it a try just once... ;) It's amazing and fun especially knowing how far away it is. I find it incredible that we can just point and shoot and take photos of the moon so far away with such great detail. Boggles my mind!! :)
Photo of this moon taken in Mississauga, Ontario Canada Sunday March 7th, 2010.
"Sun., March 7
Last Quarter Moon, 10:42 a.m.
The Last or Third Quarter Moon rises around 2 a.m. and sets around 10 a.m. It is above the horizon only 8 hours because of its low southern declination."
"As you read this, the Moon is moving away from us. Each year, the Moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 3.8 centimeters higher in its orbit. Researchers say that when it formed, the Moon was about 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) from Earth. It's now more than 280,000 miles, or 450,000 kilometers away."
"Tides and the moon
The moon causes many of the tides in the Earth's oceans. This is because of the gravity force between the Earth and Moon. At full Moon and new Moon, the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides (called spring tides, for the way they spring up). When the Moon is at first or last quarter, smaller neap tides form."
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I just came in from seeing tonight's "Supermoon" here in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Our skies are clear and it looked marvelous. So get outside and take a look for yourself..don't forget to grab your camera! Of course it was handheld while in my jimmyjams..I don't want to ruin a good thing I have going lol ;)
Spotting the supermoon
"The moon has not been in a position to appear this large since March 1993.
In December 2008, there was a near-supermoon when the moon turned full four hours away from its perigee – the point in its orbit that is closest to Earth. But this month, the full moon and perigee are just under one hour apart, promising spectacular views, depending on local conditions."
"Why is this moon so close?
The reason is that the 2011 March full moon falls on the same date as perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth for the month. At perigee today, the moon lies only 356,575 kilometers (221,575 miles) away. Earlier this month, on March 6, the moon swung to apogee – its farthest point for the month. At that time, the moon was 406,583 kilometers (252,639 miles) distant."
"March 19, 2011 presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth since December 12, 2008. The moon won’t come this close again until November 14, 2016. The extra-close moon in all of these years – 2008, 2011 and 2016 – finds the full moon occurring on the same date as lunar perigee. More often than not, the closest perigee of the year comes on the day that the full moon and perigee coinicide."
"How often does the full moon coincide with perigee?
Closest full moons recur in cycles of 14 lunar (synodic) months, because 14 lunar months almost exactly equal 15 returns to perigee. A lunar month refers to the time period between successive full moons, a mean period of 29.53059 days. An anomalistic month refers to successive returns to perigee, a period of 27.55455 days. Hence:
14 x 29.53059 days = 413.428 days
15 x 27.55455 days = 413.318 days
This time period is equal to about 1 year, 1 month, and 18 days. The full moon and perigee will realign again on May 6, 2012, because the 14th full moon after today’s full moon will fall on that date."
Happy Mooning Everyone ;)
Couldn't resist..Don't get as much detail with a full moon but to get one with clear skies is beauty! Handheld taken in my jimmyjams here in Mississauga, Ontario CANADA on Nov 10/11
"Much like a college student on vacation, the full moon will stay up all night tonight and sleep in all day tomorrow. From sundown to sunup, the moon will follow the path of the May sun across the sky tonight. Watch it rise around sunset this evening and set around sunrise tomorrow. At midnight, when the sun lurks beneath our feet, the moon will assume the position of the May noonday sun."
"This November full moon shines in between the dazzling planet Jupiter and the Pleiades star cluster. (However, you may need binoculars to see the Pleiades in the lunar glare tonight.) All full moons rise around sunset and set around sunrise. Tonight’s November full moon – like the full moon at any season – shines from dusk till dawn, and climbs to its highest point in the sky around midnight."
"In the Northern Hemisphere, some people will call this November full moon the Frosty Moon or Beaver Moon. In the Southern Hemisphere, where it’s now spring, the November full moon could be called the Flower Moon."
I took this photo of the moon while in Gatineau, Quebec this past weekend. Sunday night after dinner I noticed that the moon was so bright and clear........I ran up to our room and grabbed my camera. Here is the result of what I saw. I stood on the patio of Arome at the Hilton Lac Leamy to get this shot (sorry guys I wasn't wearing my jimmyjams this time ;) hehehe. It looked like a big Moonflower in the sky ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5zbewcP_Jk
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Waxing Gibbous, 83% of the Moon is Illuminated
Happy to be back home now and I hope to get all caught up tomorrow. Enjoy!!
I took this photo of the moon on Sunday night May 23rd, 2010 in Gatineau, Quebec.
Tonight's moon as I saw it in Port Credit, Ontario Canada is YOUR moon wherever you are in your corner of the world..Yup, once again handheld taken in my jimmyjams by me with my trusty little sony DSCHX1 and my x1.7 tele-conversion lens. When the night is clear the moon calls out to me..I have to shoot it and see what happens..it's always different and always so cool for me to see on my computer and share it with all of you. Funny but I am Taurus ;) born in April that's me.
I see other photos of the moon on flickr from people who are real die hard astrophotographers, with sophisticated equipment hooked up to telescopes etc..I don't know about you but this is pretty good for a gal who just points her camera up into the sky and shoots isn't it? lol
"Weekend South Taurid meteor shower starts November 4"
The South Taurids are expected to be at their best after midnight Saturday, November 5, or after midnight Sunday, November 6. And the other Taurid shower – the North Taurids – should be raining down the most meteors a week from now, during the weekend of November 11-13.
"The radiant points for two November meteor showers – the South Taurids and North Taurids – both reside in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull. If you trace the paths of shower meteors backward, each shower appears to radiate from a certain point in the starry sky. As can be expected, the radiant point for the South Taurids is found in southern Taurus, while that of the North Taurids is found in northern Taurus."
ENJOY! Have a great weekend everyone..
I took this moments ago handheld of course, in my jimmyjams and coat lol :) Suddenly we've had a drop in temp and it's quite cold out right now..I couldn't resist as it's so bright. I say this almost every time I post a Moon shot but each and every time it freaks me out that little 'ol me can get a decent shot of the Moon from so far away....Unreal. The Moon as I saw it moments ago here in Mississauga, Ontario C A N A D A
November 23, 2010 - Tonight
"At nightfall and early evening, the bowl-shaped constellation Corona Borealis – the Northern Crown – shines to the lower right of the star Vega, close to your western horizon. Can you spot brilliant Vega shining rather high in the western sky at nightfall? It can guide you to the Northern Crown."
"You’ll need a dark sky to see the Northern Crown, which is a glittery semicircle of stars. See the pattern of The Keystone? It’s part of the constellation Hercules, and it lies between Vega and the Northern Crown. So you would be star-hopping from Vega, to the Keystone, to the Crown."
"The Alpha star or brightest star in the Northern Crown is called by two names: Alphecca and Gemma. The star name Gemma means ‘bright one of the dish."
The Micmac Indians living in southeastern Canada see this C-shaped configuration as the Bear’s Den, the home of Celestial Bear. For a few weeks at this time of year, Corona Borealis (the Bear’s Den) is seen in the western sky after dusk – and then, in the eastern sky before dawn. This double feature announces the coming of hibernation season."
Enjoy! Sweet Dreams Everyone ;)
I had to go out tonight and shoot the moon..While photographing the full moon doesn't catch a lot of detail is sure is fun to see through a camera lens. I've said it before and I'll say it again..it always freaks me out that I can get such a decent shot while in my jimmyjams handheld with my little SONY camera and tele-conversion lens. Awesome.
It's my birthday month so I figured I might just catch a little luck with photographing the full moon in April ;)
"Tonight’s April full moon – the first full moon of spring – shines close to Spica and Saturn, but you may need binoculars to see these two points of light in the lunar glare."
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The Art Moderne style Northland-Greyhound Bus Depot opened in 1937. The horizontal bands of windows and curved window glass that wrap around corners present a streamlined effect. When the depot opened the outside walls were blue-glazed bricks with white trim. In 1968, the Greyhound Bus Company relocated its depot.
In 1970, a rock club named "Uncle Sam's" opened in the former bus depot building. In 1981, the venue was renamed "First Avenue." First Avenue has hosted many famed artists and has been a venue where new or young groups launched their careers to the next level. Prince Rogers Nelson, a local artist, used First Avenue to test new material and to jam with other local artists, creating a vibrant Funk/R&B music scene known as the "Minneapolis Sound." Prince used First Avenue as the set and place for filming of his movie, Purple Rain. James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis, Grammy winning songwriting and record producers developed and honed their skills at First Street.
I'll die way before Methuselah ...
Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier (born 1988), known professionally as Christine and the Queens or occasionally simply Chris, is a French singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Nantes, she started learning piano at the age of four and found inspiration in one of London's clubs while studying.
Letissier emphasized the importance of her experience with Madame Jojo's drag club in London: "These drag artists have become my friends, they've inspired my creativity. They gave me the idea of creating a character, inventing another silhouette, another way of being in this world. Before it was a musical project, Christine was for me the answer to how to live properly. The Queens in Christine and the Queens is my tribute to them. Without the queens, I wouldn't be here".
She also said, "[she] does not want to choose between French music and English pop music" and takes influence from both. In a November 2013 interview with Brain Magazine, she cited artists such as Christophe, David Bowie (especially his Ziggy Stardust character), Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Philip Glass, T. Rex as well as the Soul Train soundtracks as her musical influences. She also named Michael Jackson as her favourite male singer and "either Patti Smith or Kate Bush" as her favourite female singer. Other influences include Björk, Beyoncé, Daniel Balavoine, Fever Ray, Frank Ocean, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Mylène Farmer, Joe Jackson, Lou Reed, and Serge Gainsbourg. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_and_the_Queens
Image of Letissier performing at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona during 2019 by Raph_PH via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3FUZ
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Ok so I couldn't resist again lol Taken in my jimmyjams (seems I have good luck when I'm wearing them hehehe) handheld from Mississauga, Ontario Canada a little while ago on June 22, 2010. I waited as some clouds passed by before I took this one.......Seems I did get good details on the craters here..GOODNIGHT MOON I'm going for my beauty sleep now..........
"Moon near Crown of the Scorpion on June 22, 2010.
Tonight’s moon appears near the upper part of the constellation Scorpius. These three stars are sometimes called the Crown of the Scorpion.
Scorpius – which now rises in the south-southeastern sky at early evening now – is the constellation of the Scorpion. Individually, the Crown stars are Graffias, Dschubba, and Pi Scorpii.
It’s rare when star patterns on our sky’s dome have anything to do with real associations of stars in space, but these stars are thought to be loosely bound by gravity. All three are located at approximately the same distance, about 500 light-years away. All are thought to be members of the Scorpius-Centaurus group, which was first recognized by astronomers in the early part of this century.
About 100 stars are known in the Scorpius-Centaurus group, including Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius – also pictured on today’s chart."
Moon, waxing gibbous, 88% of full, N Hemisphere
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