Earthshine at Wolverine’s Den

03Mar06

On certain nights
When the angles are right
And the Moon is a slender crescent

It’s circle shows
In a ghostly glow
Of Earthly luminescence

The 3.5-day-old Moon lingers above the trees in my backyard.

Canon 20D w/50mm prime, F/4, 4″ exposure.

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1 Solar Flare on Mar 4th, 2006 said:

That’s nice.
2 ~Z~ on Mar 4th, 2006 said:

That photo looks a lot like the view of the moon from my front garden last night.
3 Wolverine on Mar 4th, 2006 said:

I was going to try to improve on that this evening but clouds decided otherwise. Grumble.
4 Solar Flare on Mar 4th, 2006 said:

So much for me seeing that comet. The weather hasn’t been cooperating on Saturday nights lately. I guess I’ll have to amuse myself some other way…
5 Wolverine on Mar 4th, 2006 said:

Same here. I’ve yet to have a chance at Pojmanski.
6 Wolf on Mar 5th, 2006 said:

Really nice composition here, over the trees. I can even see some stars!
7 sunil on Mar 5th, 2006 said:

Really great information and photo, i have a question, when we say that earth is shining, it means earth reflecting more light from its surface to the outer side, when the light fall on the earth’s surface more execessive, or it is due to the green house effect, or it is just due to mass cutting forests worldwide, the light cannot be absorb on earth and the same we feels that earth is shining more better than the previous, or it is a sort of abnormality from earth’s point of view. ?

sunil
8 Wolverine on Mar 5th, 2006 said:

Oh no, nothing to do with the greehouse effect. Earthshine is sunlight reflecting off of the Earth onto the Moon (and back).

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