The coming full moon on Friday is the June "Strawberry Moon". Storms are in the forecast, so these may be the last clear-sky images for a while.
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| Moon rising over Snowshoe Mtn. Tuesday 18 June. Canon FD 300mm f/4. |
A couple hours later:
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| 11.9-d moon, Tuesday 18 June. AT80EDT. ISO 200, 1/800 s. |
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| 10.9-d moon. Monday 17 June. AT80EDT. ISO 200, 1/1000 s. |
The sky brightness with the moon was sqml=19.98. This is still dark enough to capture some deep-sky objects.
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| M57, the "Ring Nebula". AT80EDT, ISO 1600, 30 s. FOV = 0.5 deg. |
The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. This type of nebula forms when a star similar to our sun reaches its end of life and expels its outer layers while transforming into a white dwarf star.
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| 9.1-d moon. Saturday15 June. AT80EDT, ISO 200, 1/500 s. |
Even with a waxing moon past first quarter, the sky brightness was sqml=20.08. This is darker than a moonless night in Santa Fe.
The great Hercules globular cluster M13. AT80EDT, ISO 1600, 30 s. 1-deg FOV.
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| 8.2-d moon. Friday 14 June. AT80EDT, ISO 200, 1/400 s. |
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| M4, globular cluster in Scorpius. 1-deg FOV. AT80EDT, ISO 1600, 30 s. |
The sky brightness for this last shot was sqml=20.54 in the direction opposite from the moon.
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