Tag Archives: image of the night sky

Ursid from Lake Bacalar, Buenavista, Quintana Roo. Dec. 22, 2025

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This is the night sky from Lake Bacalar in Buenavista, Quintana Roo, on Dec. 22, 2025. We got up at 5 to drive through the jungle to the lake to  try to view the Ursid Meteor Shower which was supposed to be most active in the hours before dawn. Home at 6:45, chilly and damp from lying out on the wet wooden deck over the water to get free of the surrounding jungle.  I saw 6 or 7 meteors in the more than an hour we were there. Xill thinks she saw 13.  Most of the action was supposed to take place around the Little Dipper which was not viewable. This is the Big Dipper, which was still in the very dark part of the sky. The lower part of the sky was lightened…probably by the lights of Tulum 2 hours away.

 

Our viewing spot, in daylight.

For Cellpic Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025

“Quiet Places, Quiet Times” for Lens Artists Challenge 35

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For Lens Artists Challenge 364, the prompt is “A Quiet Moment.“

Monochrome Nightscapes

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These photos were taken just prior to our first good night of rain. The arty shots were created with Luna.

Night Sky, Jan 14, 2024

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Night Traveler

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Night Traveler

Beneath the moon’s rotation and a sky cobbled by stars,
I lie upon my back and search for Jupiter and Mars.
The Milky Way creates a bridge for my imagination
which journeys down its highway without any hesitation.

Sequestered as I am by walls and blackness of the night,
there are no other travelers to share my nightly flight.
Only approach of daylight can bring this traveler home
as the morning draws a curtain over heaven’s dome.

 

Prompts today are bridge, sequestered, rotation, cobbled and approach. Image thanks to Ibrahim Shabil on Unsplash.

Lens Artists Challenge: Low Light

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Almost dark.so we went home.
Air, Earth, Water, Fire, Metal
After the skylight is covered. Dark in daylight!
These Chinese Lanterns are solar and await the darkness to shine!

Lens Artists Challenge: Low Light

 

Weekend Sky #41, Sept 11, 2021

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For Weekend Sky 41

Moon in Flux

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These are 20 different photos of the full moon taken within a period of a few minutes from my backyard. The only editing tools I used were cropping, light adjustment, color, saturation, and sharpen—all aspects of the Photos Application on my Mac. You’ll get a much better image of each photo if you click on them. The two photos that show two moon are photos of the moon and its reflection in my pool. They are shown in the order in which I took them.

Red Sky

 

 

 

Night Garden

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The night turned cool and I was about to arouse myself from my hammock to go up to the house when I caught sight of the moon.

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Nyctophilia

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Nyctophilia

I love the night. I love the night.
So personal and sparse of light.
Naught to stay my straying feet 
in their journey towards a late night treat.
No one to interrupt my thinking
or to disapprove my drinking.
No one knocking at my door.
No one to put a bra on for.
I love the darkness and the calm
of blackness spreading like a balm
cushioning the obligations
and the constant consternations
of the cluttered daylight world
with all its busy fuss unfurled.
Though daylight’s pleasures you may recite,
Still, stubbornly, I prefer night!