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Fly Me to the Moon

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a, Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Those last two lines kind of come out of nowhere don't they.

Years ago I was a member of the Victorian Astronomical Society here in Melbourne and we would enjoy going on field trips into dark sky areas to observe the planets and constellations with telescopes of various sizes. Saturn and its rings was of course a favourite of mine. But so were the Galilean moons of Jupiter (all lined up in a row alongside the gas giant).

This collage of sunset skies was taken in Melbourne over three different spring nights. The central one featuring the moon was taken on October 13, just after 7.00 pm. Now astronomers know the night sky and the phases of the moon follow an exactly predictable pattern. So I have to come clean here and tell you that on that evening the moon was "Waxing Gibbous", meaning that was between a half moon and a full one, illuminated 77.47%. nineplanets.org/moon/phase/10-13-2024/

In the viewfinder of my little Leica the moon was very small, so I softened the focus until it resembled a full moon.

All photographs here taken with the Leica D-Lux 7.

Taken on: November 30, 2024

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