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These are better, but the shutter speed is much slower and I couldn't keep the camera still enough to keep it sharp.
This post began with Shooting the Moon.
Then Lunar Eclipse Part 1.
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Strike |
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Safe at first |
The December solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. Depending on the Gregorian calendar, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and December 23. On this date, all places above a latitude of 66.5 degrees north (Arctic Polar Circle) are now in darkness, while locations below a latitude of 66.5 degrees south (Antarctic Polar Circle) receive 24 hours of daylight.
Length of day | Solar noon | ||||||
Date | Sunrise | Sunset | This day | Difference | Time | Altitude | Distance (106 km) |
Dec 17, 2012 | 10:12 AM | 3:41 PM | 5h 28m57s | − 49s | 12:56 PM | 5.6° | 147.204 |
Dec 18, | 10:12 AM | 3:41 PM | 5h 28m19s | -37s | 12:57PM | 5.5˚ | 147.191 |
Dec. 19 | 10:13 AM | 3:41PM | 5h 27m54s | -25s | 12:57 PM |
5.5˚ | 147.179 |
Dec. 20 | 10:14AM | 3:41PM | 5h27m41s | -12s | 12:58 PM | 5.5˚ | 147.167 |
Dec. 21 | 10:14AM | 3:42PM | 5h27m40s | <1s | 12:58 PM | 5.5˚ | 147.157 |
Dec. 22 | 10:15AM | 3:43PM | 5h27m53s | +12s | 12:59 PM | 5.5˚ | 147.147 |
Dec. 23 | 10:15AM | 3:43PM | 5h28m17s | +24s | 12:59 PM | 5.5˚ | 147.137 |
Data from Time and Date. | |||||||
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Leaving LAX 8:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) |
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Still light to NW - 9:01 PDT |
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12:25 am PDT (11:25 Alaska DT) |
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Looking North 12:26 am PDT (11:26 ADT) |
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Over clouds 1:01 am PDT (12:01 am ADT) |
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Over the Chugach Range 12:34 am ADT |
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Approaching ANC at 12:47am ADT |
"When Coming (or rriving), it is really departing.
When Departing (), it is really coming."
Another way of telling is this:L-E-FT hand curve = D-E-CREASING.
R-I-GHT hand curve = -I-NCREASING.
We astronomers call this sort of close full moon a perigee full moon. [The LA Times article also mentions perigree.] The word perigee describes the moon’s closest point to Earth for a given month. But last year, when the closest and largest full moon occurred on March 19, 2011, many used a term we’d never heard: supermoon. We’ve heard this term again at this 2012 close full moon. What does it mean exactly? And how special is the May 5, 2012 supermoon?
. . . Will you be able to notice with your eye alone that tonight's full moon is bigger or brighter than usual? Astronomers say no, but it'll be fun to stand outside under tonight's full moon and know the moon is closer than it has been since March 19, 2011. The word supermoon didn’t come from astronomy. Instead, it came from astrology. Astrologer Richard Nolle of the website astropro.com takes credit for coining the term supermoon. In 1979, he defined it as:
…a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee). In short, Earth, moon and sun are all in a line, with moon in its nearest approach to Earth.
"We expect the following from all new dog team members:
• Attend at least one or two training sessions per week.
• Train in all types of weather.
• Attend outside classes (obedience, agility, first aid & specialty classes).
• Work with other handlers on practice search problems.
• Volunteer to be a subject for ASARD training and tests. [I guess that was me.]
• Have a positive and constructive attitude.
• Develop/demonstrate adequate physical fitness.
• Be willing to train up to 2 years to achieve mission-ready status.
• Be willing to train independently.
• Purchase necessary personal equipment.
• Work with your dog every day outside of unit training.
• Maintain a written daily training log."
The Illusionist (2010) is an animated film based on an unproduced, semi-autobiographical script that Tati wrote in 1956. Directed by Sylvain Chomet, known for The Triplets of Belleville, the main character is an animated caricature of Tati himself. . .
Between 1940 and 1942 he presented his Sporting Impressions at the original Lido de Paris . There he met the dancer Herta Schiel, who fled Austria with her sister Molly at the time of the Anschluss. In the summer of 1942, Herta gave birth to their daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel. Following the pressure of his sister Nathalie Tatischeff, he refused to recognize the child and abandoned the mother and his first child.For those of you who know history, you'll recognize that this was during WW II which began in late 1939. Wikipedia gives a bit of explanation why this young man wasn't fighting:
In September 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War Tati was conscripted into the 16th Regiment of Dragoons. Placed into a new unit, he fought in the Battle on the Meuse in May 1940. Tati ended up in Dordogne, where he was demobilized.The Wikipedia article also tells us:
Controversy has dogged The Illusionist. The Guardian reports,
The movie now makes sense - why it is so overbearingly sad. It's Tati talking to his long lost baby girl and telling her there is no magic. (Tati died in 1982)In 2000, the screenplay was handed over to Chomet by Tati's daughter, Sophie, two years before her death. Now, however, the family of Tati's illegitimate and estranged eldest child, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel, who lives in the north-east of England, are calling for the French director to give her credit as the true inspiration for the film. The script of L'illusionniste, they say, was Tati's response to the shame of having abandoned his first child [Schiel] and it remains the only public recognition of her existence. They accuse Chomet of attempting to airbrush out their painful family legacy again.