Image of the day…” MoonLight Skating in Sweden …” !!!

“Nights like these are almost to good to be true.” See this touching, just-released video.

 

 

Master sky photographer Göran Strand of Sweden – whose beautiful photo The Father, The Son and the Moon is also featured here at EarthSky this week – mentioned a couple of days ago that he soon would have something more “exotic” to show us. Today (December 10, 2014), he wrote with word of a new video he’s just completed and posted at YouTube. He wrote:

Now I finished the movie showing me and a couple of my friends tour skating on a frozen lake near Östersund, Sweden [a couple of nights ago]. This night was really magic, no wind, lots of ice crystals in the air and an almost full moon that shined upon us during our two hours out on the ice. To the right of the moon, you can see the constellation of Orion and, down left of the moon, you can see planet Jupiter shining brightly.

Nights like these are almost to good to be true.

Hope you like it.

Visit Göran Strand’s website: http://www.astrofotografen.se

Visit Göran on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fotografgoranstrand

Follow Göran on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astrofotografen

Göran Strand on Instagram: http://instagram.com/Astrofotografen

SOURCE::: http://www.earthsky.org and You Tube

Natarajan

Image of the Day…Crescent Moon !!!

Photo credit: Göran Strand

Tuesday’s crescent moon sets behind a small cabin.   Photo by Göran Strand.

Photo credit: Göran Strand

If you’ve been watching the early evening sky, you know the moon has returned to it. It has appeared in a slim waxing crescent phase over these past evenings. Göran Strand of Sweden captured the crescent moon on Tuesday evening, November 25, 2014. Notice the glow over the unlit part of a crescent moon? It’s called earthshine, and it’s sunlight reflected from Earth’s day onto the moon’s surface.

A big thank you to Göran Strand for sharing his photo with us. You can see more beautiful photos by Göran Strand here

SOURCE:::: http://www.earthsky.org

Natarajan