October’s Luna | Southern westerly

October Luna
photograph taken during a oncoming clouded evening of thirteenth -October – 2013 AD

This month has been very, extreme windy, with very much so of majority of clouds in the landscape.. I guess at the moment over here in New Zealand we’re still breaking into spring….. taking this landscaped photo of the Moon’s Luna surface,  was very just in the nick of time.. when the very sunset clouds have roamed complete over that night. In darken cotton sheered clouds from the southern west direction.. in slightly generous matter.. in the early parts of the evening..

Looking at the Luna, that night was great, despite the oncoming onslaught of clouds, that night.. you could see that, that the moon was in two quarters, also that you could see the beautifully outlines of the craters shadowing there curious intriguing timeless depths.. that night was great, normally you could see only the dark and the light boundaries, known as the Terminator..  In this night, you could see more of the white tones, edging  into the darkness… with the pots shadows of the large or small craters..

A PACIFICA ENTRANCE | Auckland Art Gallery

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Photograph taken 15-10-2011 1200 hours New Zealand Time,
” the newly acquired spacious entrance of Auckland Art Gallery “

Over the last half decade, there’s been a a lot of changes recently  in with the renovations of the Auckland Art Gallery, as you see this is the newest extensions to the building itself, going there last, there’s been a more of openness in allowing more light in, bring in more natural light into  the building,  As in the past it was a Edwardian constructed building, with very spacious windows, letting light in, but not the complete openness of light in which of it in which was structurally  ordered…. in now you have the non-barricade relationship between you in the installation and nature… in brings a relax nature within you…..without been closeted in..

Half Moon seen…..

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in the distance a half moon Luna.. as the telescope mirrors are cooling down from the summery day…
photograph taken during 2000 hours- eleventh- February- 2011

When you look at the moon throughout the months, it’s an interesting sight, looking through the telescopes, with binocular, or with your naked eyes..  in this case looking through the main telescope.. either through a Schmidt Cassegrain Meade or a Zeiss… in this case when  I was taking this a frame moment in time.. I was opening up the dome, also the mirror hatches to cool down the mirrors, making sure that they don’t warp the images during the summery late evenings… takes a while to cool down the haft a meter mirror…of the Zeiss Edith Winstone Blackwell Telescope…

In this moment, it was summer, a very much warm day and the dome wasn’t operated during the day plus it need cooling for the evenings sessions to come on that fine night. In which crowds were given very much the starry night spectaculars.

A two year old sunset…

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25 September 2011 1900 hours photograph taken from one tree hill upper playgrounds….

Today it’s least than quarter into spring, and it’s somehow beginning to feel like the feel of summery is coming, but two years ago, it came early… but early freshly chilled though…. One nice thing that then is that you get to see more of a prolonging sunset in the West down to Phia as you see the beautiful clouds glow with warm colours of warm lime citrine yellow, oranges to the more of the glow soft colour pastels pinkish red-ish orange..  shadowing silhouette trees, buildings has if was a life-size, shadow puppet play on real life…stage…

Summery West…

 

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2010 summery at Auckland Observatory – Stardome

Taken during  the year 2010, on one December Auckland summery day, in which the sunlight was still out due to daylight savings, so a very good prescription of Coffee in the early hours of a dark twilight morning.  Thinking back the sun feels like if it want to stay to give its moderately summery warmth setting down West seeing between two observatories, researching on left, also publicly viewing on the right. Feeling that warmth it was a notion that the sun is trying to make up for the guilt of giving you wintery warm.