Its about the moon

Over about the last week I have taken the occasional photo of the moon at different times of the night and morning - not obsessed just enjoying the changing nature and clarity.

©2016 Barry Smith - Weird purple light created by sunrise and cloud over a setting moon and distortion created by the camera

The early morning on Monday was particularly unusual - a colourful sunrise as the moon was setting made for some unusual colours as you can see from the photo above. Much of the unusual colour etc was cause by a combination of the autofocus of the camera (Canon Powershot), an early morning bank of cloud rolling in from the west and the sunrise - but more about that later. Unless indicated otherwise all the photos were taken with the Canon Powershot.

First some photos of the changing size and colour and clarity of the moon during different phases.

©2016 Barry Smith  - Purple halo - out of focus moon and star 

©2016 Barry Smith  - Cold grey moon on a clear night

©2016 Barry Smith - Almost full moon on a clear very very early morning

©2016 Barry Smith - Full moon- clear evening

©2016 Barry Smith - Bottom edge of the full moon

Monday morning

©2016 Barry Smith - Full moon - early morning

And now back to that early morning light

©2016 Barry Smith - Blush of sunrise to the left and setting moon to the right (iPhone panorama)

©2016 Barry Smith  - Sunrise - setting moon caught behind a bank of cloud reflecting sunrise light (iPhone panorama)

And early morning moon - distorted light through cloud and the morning atmosphere  - the camera was having trouble focussing and was creating some distortions of colour and light

©2016 Barry Smith  - Distorted light and cloud over the moon

©2016 Barry Smith  - Caught behind apricot clouds (iPhone zoom)

©2016 Barry Smith  - Drift of cloud covers setting moon - purple haze and halo of distorted light

And contrasting grey sky of the setting moon.

©2016 Barry Smith  - Setting moon - free of cloud but seemly against a grey background

Wednesday morning

©2016 Barry Smith - Bottom of the moon disappearing

©2016 Barry Smith - Bottom of the moon disappearing

©2016 Barry Smith - This morning's moon well after sunrise - moon in the blue

©2016 Barry Smith - This morning's moon well after sunrise - moon in the blue

So you can see why I get a bit fixated at times.

And the sunrise this morning

©2016 Barry Smith - A soft clear valley morning with no clouds