> FWIW, the marine layer was at 1350-1700 feet last nigth, covering the
> entire valley. At 2400 feet the valley was a VERY DARK ocean-cloud
> below. Pretty amazing sigth. I took some pictures that I'll post
> later tonight or tomorrow.
Link to the picture at the end of the message. First the story :-)
The idea was to take a photo of M45 and the Moon, as these last two
nights they've rather close. So on Friday night, around 2:30am, while
here in Sunnyvale the sky was overcast with low clouds, I decided to
drive up to a place near Skyline and Montebello, at around 2500~2600
feet, hoping the fog wasn't that high.
As I was driving up, at around 1350 feet I started to drive in fog.
Ok... And I was a very happy fellow when the fog dissapeared at around
1700 feet. So I kept driving up until I reached my destination, and
there they were (the moon and M45) but the blanket of fog over the
valley was so outstanding (much darker than what you see in the photo
below) that I decided to take several shots and make up a small mosaic
that'd include the fog and my original target (m45 and the moon). I had
to photograph my targets using a much larger FOV than what I was
originally planning, but in the end I didn't regret.
Also, since the "astro" part of the photo is nothing out of this world,
I decided to spice up the image and compose an "educational" photo with
a closeup of M45 reusing the image I took from the Pleiades a couple of
weeks ago.
And here's the picture:
http://deepskycolors.com/pics/astro/2008/08/mb_08-23-2008_Moon_M45.jpg
The fog in the image looks very bright due to the long exposure and
stretching of the histogram during processing, but to the eye it was, as
I said earlier, much much darker.
And look who's coming up down near the horizon... Is it winter already? :-)
RBA
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