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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.

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.

A Western sunset – February taken

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Photo taken on twenty third – February – two thousand and twelve Anno Domin. in the westward direction.

When you look into the western direction from Auckland Observatory Known as Stardome. You could see a lot of timeless unique events like you may see a sunset many, or multiple times, and you say it’s just another sunset…?  Well when you look at one, it’s never the same again like the other ones like the day before, the presently now, or presently tomorrow.

The clouds are different, the warmth of looking at that moment of feeling the beautifully citrine orange hues giving you a sense a natured regeneration refreshness as you look down to the awe of the horizon westwardly as the sun settles down the direction of Piha beach.  Also when it’s slightly scattered  clouded, it can be a good thing as giving you more light to work from and comfort.

One driving escape.

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This is one drive of road is one of the best escapes from after work, given you just had heavy work load. When you drive down this drive, it refreshing you has you drive down slowly to take you time driving down or up the drive. Locate in the first thing that you drive into in Cornwell Park,  is a drive known as Pohutukawa drive from the Greenlane west, Auckland, New Zealand.

The drive is surrounded by beautifully Edwardian planted trees, that it was crafted, by the parks donor Sir Logan Campbell. In that surroundings it’s a place where it people exercise, weekend  family fun where there’s place located nearby so you could do family BBQ’s in the park. Plus it’s one very good location to have your wedding photographs taken timelessly.

your after work escape is there 24/7 for you, even though it’s pleasing relaxing refreshing to escape to during summery,  it can be the same during wintery seasons. Driving down the drive. gives your eyes a sense of rest, freshness after intaking delightfully self prescribed dosage the natural light, rather the harsh working office light.

When you drive along this road slowly, it’s a 40Km/hr.  there’s a velocity restriction, due to the people walking around in the park be courtesy take you time.

—- Harbouring —-

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Done on a three mega pixel HP digital camera, on the month circa October 2007 AD nearly sunsetted.

Looking out southish, into the Manukau Harbour on a late springs day on 2007, just coming out from a very warm winter, but not of this years in which has been very wintery polar.   As you could see out in the distance the Manukau harbour the distance mouth, the Township of Mangere Bridge, hiding behind is Puketutu Island, a private Island. In the very distance you could see (Jean Batten’s International Airport) Auckland International Airport’s runway has aircrafts of all types arrives and departs. In the very distance is the entrance mouth, in between Wattie and Wonga Wonga Bay there it leads to the Tasman sea where it meets the shore lines of Australia, next stop Sydney.

In the fore ground you could see an intriguing explorationally place call the Stardome Planetarium and Observatory with its research observatory also behind the clusters of bushel leaves, on the right is the Edith Winstone Blackwell Zeiss Telescope, with thirty inch mirror, as on left is the Planetarium installed Ether and Sutherland.