This isn't a post about a photograph. The photograph is mediocre at best. This is about serendipity.
When I got home at lunch I tried to grab a few photos to show a couple of things. One was the gorgeous banding in the southern sky, and the other was to try and show how much light there is on this our darkest day of the winter.
By the time I rooted around and found my tripod and got out there it was 12:30. The moon was just peeking over the hills above town and I snapped a couple of shots of it. When I headed back to work at 1:00 the moon had now risen, and I decided it was an opportunity I couldn't miss, and once again grabbed my camera and headed down to the shore.
It's tricky lighting, so I took several shots with differing exposures, the photo above is just one of them. This evening, as I was looking at them I noticed something that would not have been visible with the naked eye. If you look you can see a number of stars in the photo, little streaks of light because of the 30 second exposure. They really are hard to see with the naked eye. But there is something else, off on the right side. A shooting star.
The Ursids are happening right now, not a big meteor shower, and overshadowed by the Geminids early this month. Because the moon is full they'd barely be noticible excecpt during the eclipse. But this photo caught one of them.
Here it is, again, on the top right side of the photo.
The other thing that is noticible is just how dusty my camera's sensor is.
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I usually enjoy your blog from my Facebook page but I would like to link it to my own website. Thanks for sharing the far north with us. Good luck getting to the North Pole.
I am surprised by the light there, clare. It looks beautiful. Love those meteor showers too.
Hi Val. Thank you. You are welcome to link here. What is your URL?
That photo is overexposed Robin so it shows it brighter than it is. I was shooting at a number of different exposures.
Oooo, that explains it then. I LOVE that photo, but was quite surprised at how bright it is. The moon almost looks like it’s the sun…almost. But of course I know that the sun is still far from rising in your part of the world!
Ha! I’ve noticed the 1h 40min difference I lost in daylight when coming back from the Bahamas, lol. I should try getting to Arctic Bay to experience real darkness! 🙂
Well, even if it’s overexposed, it’s a GORGEOUS picture! It looks SO Christmas-y! 😀 (To me at least).
Only 6 more weeks until the Sun’s return Melodie.