No Beaver Moon

[yourlibrarian]

Was on the lookout the night it was supposed to appear, but there was a lot of cloud cover in the east, and I saw no moon at all that Thursday night.

However we did have a great sunset.





The sunsets are happening so early now that I sometimes don't see them, so this was a nice treat on a night when I was.







I particularly liked how this photo looked a bit like an aurora.

Comments

[adafrog]

:)

[yourlibrarian]

Ha, you were quick!

[adafrog]

:)

[linky]

Beautiful photos!

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks!

[magid]

These are all lovely, but I’m particularly impressed with how you caught the clouds in the last photo.

[yourlibrarian]

It was just luck really. I'd come back inside after taking the others, but the sunsets move so quickly that it had a different look to it minutes later. So I went back out for one more 🙂

[kazzy_cee]

Wow - the sky looks on fire...

[yourlibrarian]

Some nights it does seem like that, which is fitting I guess.

[cmcmck]

Lovely skies!

[yourlibrarian]

It was a particularly nice view, alright!

[shirebound]

Oooh, stunning! That's probably as close to an aurora that I'll see. :)

[full_metal_ox]

Me too, down at 25°N.

[yourlibrarian]

Same. I saw photos someone in Wisconsin took and it looked great. But that's still substantially farther north than we are.

[shadowkat]

That's a lovely photo of a sunset - thanks for sharing!

[yourlibrarian]

You're very welcome 🙂 It's interesting how the same view can look slightly different just minutes apart.

[turlough]

It was a STUNNING sunset!

[yourlibrarian]

What a great one that is in your icon as well!

[pameladean]

Oh, that's such a classic winter sunset -- by which I mean that I see layered ones like it in the same colors where I am around this time of year. But a particularly good varied one.

As for the moon, one of my partners is working on a lunar calendar that can name all the possible vagaries of moon phases. He recently texted me that the moon's orbit is even wobblier than he thought, and the dark of the moon lasts longer in some months than others. He specifically complained that the moon set before sunset on Thursday and Friday both, because it's at apogee and because it is already very very low in the south at this time of the year. So possibly, depending on where you are exactly, you didn't miss it because it wasn't visible.

P.

[yourlibrarian]

Could be!

[silveradept]

Those are very nice sunset photographs. Nature sometimes likes to give us a show.

[yourlibrarian]

We are definitely luck in that!

[semielliptical]

Beautiful colors!

[yourlibrarian]

It was a really pretty sight 🙂