Thursday 1 March 2012

Moon & Venus

Taken on the evening of the 25th Feb The moon passes close by the planet Venus At the time this was taken the moon was 248,819 miles Venus was 87,104,049 miles away making the moon a cool 350 times closer to us than venus. I just about managed to fit them into the same frame. I deliberatly over exposed the picture to get earthshine.It is caused by sunlight that reflects off the Earth onto the Moon's night side.


1 comment:

Paul Newport said...

Malcolm, Your work is seriously great. You clearly have passion and great knowledge. I am very impressed. Paul

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