Since I was a child I always been fascinated by the Moon. As far as I can remember I wanted to become an astronaut. When I realized it was not possible I wanted to study astronomy until I found out that at University you spend most of your time studying maths and physics rather than in front of a telescope. And that was not for me.
Still the Moon remains my passion and my object of interest. A couple of days/nights ago a beautiful phenomenon occurred involving the Moon and planet Venus: a conjunction. A conjunction is the name given to occasions when two or more celestial bodies come close to one-another in the sky. They are never physically close, of course - conjunctions are simply a "line-of-sight" effect when objects just happen to be in the same area of sky as seen from Earth
My friend Roberto was so clever to be able to capture it over my hometown sky in Italy. See his pictures above and below.
And more or less at the same time the lovely Juliet of Crafty Green Poet posted this beautiful poem about the Moon, my dear Moon.
marzipan moon rises slowly
through rusting clouds
shrinking herself paler
until she sits white
high in the sky
the lights of a plane
flash on and off
below her.
Thanks Roberto and thanks Juliet. These are what I call the small joys of life...
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I love the comparison of the city lights to that of the moon and night sky! Beautiful!
You're not alone with your passion with the mmon. Just think of all the poems and songs written and sung about it
I think the pictures of the moon are just beautiful.
Awesome entry. I loved seeing the moon in conjuction with Venus. Great photo's and waxing poetic. (Hugs)Indigo
Antonella, I am so with you on the astronomy thing! I used to lay out in the yard and find the constellations, and studied a book about it. In grade school, I wanted to be an astronomer...and like you, I found out that astronomy wasn't about stargazing, but math and physics!
I still ended up in the science field, but more in the biology field.
I still love to look up on a clear night and pick out the constellations.
Hugs, Beth
Another moon-follower! When you think about it, we're possible unique in the universe in having a satellite just the right size and just the right distance to occluded the earth's only major source of light. What out ancestors made of that probabloy explains our continued fascination with a lump of rock. And did you know that rock was once part of planet earth?
oops - occlude, or 'have occluded'. And while we're about it, 'probably'. Sorry!
Buon giorno Antonella, I can spend hours looking at the sky! :) Especially during winter, when the constellations are just charming. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos! Your hometown remind me of my region (Piemonte), I must check where you come from when I have more time! ;) Cheers!
Ancora io! ;) Grazie per la visita e il commento! Mi permetto di scrivere in Italiano così faccio prima, il mio inglese lascia molto a desiderare. Io sono della provincia di NO (20 min. da Arona), ma adoro le tue zone! Un giorno spero di trasferirmi in provincia di CN, vicino a Vicoforte Mondovì, dove i miei hanno una casa. Langhe e Monferrato sono il mio sogno nel cassetto da sempre! E’ lì che ho passato nottate intere a vedere le stelle! Per fortuna sono zone che piacciono molto anche a mio marito (che è della prov. di Napoli). Attualmente siamo vicino a Glasgow. Ci siamo trasferiti qui 9 mesi fa dopo 5 anni di vita a Trieste e un anno e mezzo negli USA. Come mai? Ah, io me lo chiedo ancora adesso, LOL! ;) E’ il lavoro di mio marito (ex ricercatore) che ci ha portato a viaggiare. Come ti trovi in UK? Ci vivi da molto? Io dico sempre a mio marito che avrei dovuto sposare un’inglese; sarebbe stata la mia unica speranza di imparare decentemente una seconda lingua. O forse sono senza speranza, chissà. Poi qui non capisco quasi nulla, il dialetto è micidiale! Per ora ti saluto, scusa per il papiro. Buon venerdì, cari saluti e a ri-leggerti presto!
Bellissimo fenomeno...finalmente so cosa è una "congiunzione", di quelle che senti negli oroscopi... A few days ago I took a photo of the moon and Venus was a "few steps" away. ...
Nobu has something you might like on
http://hyakunin.blogspot.com/
I liked it.
Ciao, Valeria
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Have you heard of a custom that if you have crystals or semi precious stones that you use for healing or belive that they have special energy, you wait for a full moon and take them down to the beach to wash them under the light of the full moon. This is done to re-energise the stones/crystals.
Beautiful pictures. I love the moon and adore Walter De La Mare's poem.
I love your friend Roberto's photos! Please thank him for us for such wondrous shots. And 'marzipan moon' — I like that!
Pretty good moon pics. I just tried some a few weeks ago but they didn't come out at all:(
What an amazing photo that first one is, very beautiful. I studied Astronomy as part of my degree, for a very short time, I went to two lectures I think, yes too much maths and physics. Thanks for the link....
Those are lovely moon shots! Sitting and gazing at the moon is DIVINE!
ENJOY!
Fifi
Great pictures, lovely poem and inspiring blog. The moon is awesome in the true meaning of the word:)
hi htetr I too saw the conjunction and tried to get photographs but not terribly sucessful, I need a tripod.
Still it looked great above the small lake at Whitley Bay, I might put my feeble efforts on my blog if you want to see a substandard photo.
dave-davearmstrong.blogspot.com (I think)
They are really great photos, he was very lucky to capture those. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this in real life.
it is so beautiful~thanks~
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