My Photo Guides

Sunset Moon Rise Coming December 24 More examples of the type of sunset moon rise shot you might be able to catch, wherever you are on December 24: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/12/mono-lake-sunset-moon-rise.html Just step outside at sunset (around 4:40pm here) and look east for the moon! #moon   #Canon   #astrophotography   #easternsierra   #california

Lunar Eclipse September 27, 2015 (video) Live action and time-lapse footage from the blood moon lunar eclipse last night. https://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/lunar-eclipse-september-27-2015-night-photography #lunareclipse   #moon   #september2015   #nightphotography   https://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/lunar-eclipse-september-27-2015-night-photography

See the "supermoon" total eclipse tonight! For sky watchers in the Rocky Mountain states, partial eclipse begins at 7:11 pm local time, so look outside now!  For those of us on the West Coast of North America, moon rise occurs closer to sunset, in a little over 30 minutes.  Here in the Eastern Sierra, local moon rise is around 6:44 pm and sunset is around 6:47 pm. The moon will clear the horizon to the east right around sunset, well into its partial eclipse phase, and be fully eclipsed from 7:11 - 8:23 pm. See my blog post for more details: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/09/27/supermoon-lunar-eclipse-september-27-28-2015/ #astronomy    #astrophotography    #lunareclipse   #september2015    #supermoon    #moon   #landscapephotography

Bodie Open Until 10 pm Tonight, with Supermoon Rise Bodie is offering one of its Ghost Stories tour nights tonight, which means that they let other park visitors stay late too.  It's also a "supermoon" full moon today, and in a setting like Bodie with an eastern horizon about 3.5 degrees in elevation it'll rise over the apparent horizon during or right after peak sky color, about 20 minutes after sunset.  It gets fully dark around 9:04 pm, so you can also have nearly an hour of full moon night photography before the park closes.  As you can imagine, the park can be super crowded on a night like this, so don't expect to have it, or any particular subject, to yourself, but for the novelty of the overall experience or for practice shooting interesting subjects (and people) under full moon lighting, it's nice that the park makes such opportunities available. For a much longer, much less crowded experience, we have two more nights left in Bodie this year, October 1...

Supermoon Saturday is Coming! Do you know where your moon will be?  With PhotoPills you can figure it out! www.MyPhotoGuides.com #astrophotography   #astronomy   #supermoon   #moon   #photography   http://www.photopills.com/blog/all-you-need-make-saturdays-supermoon-shine-your-photos

Moon, Mars and Venus Conjunction over Mount Whitney I was evaluating places to capture the moon with Mars and Venus nearby last Friday, and Lori Hibbett suggested, "How about Mount Whitney?"  Mount Whitney is the highest peak in America's contiguous 48 states, and is has a nice, pointy summit.  I checked with The Photographer's Ephemeris, and sure enough, there were several positions we could shoot from and capture the  moon and planets setting.   Shooting the actual event was just as straightforward as expected based on the predictions.  As the moon and planets set in the first location closest to the mountain, we moved back to the next location and captured them setting again.  The sky was getting a little dark by the third location, roughly 2 hours after sunset, so it was time to head in for dinner at that point. #moon   #moonmarsvenus   #conjunction   #astronomy   #photography   #landscapephotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com